Strongest Male Boulderers

The best male boulderers.

This list aims to list any male boulderer who has climbed 8C+ or harder. It only lists ascents at the climbers hardest grade, so each climbers has a single entry on the list.

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72 entries on the list.

Climber Grade Climbs
1 Will Bosi 9A Alphane, Burden of Dreams, Return of the Sleepwalker, Spots of Time
2 Simon Lorenzi 9A Soudain Seul, Alphane, Burden of Dreams
3 Aidan Roberts 9A Alphane, Spots of Time, Arrival of the Birds
4 Shawn Raboutou 9A Megatron, Alphane
5 Sean Bailey 9A Shaolin, Alphane
6 Elias Iagnemma 9A Burden of Dreams, The Big Slamm
7 Nalle Hukkataival 9A Burden of Dreams
8 Nico Pelorson 9A Soudain Seul
9 Daniel Woods 9A Return of the Sleepwalker
10 Camille Coudert 9A Soudain Seul
11 Vadim Timonov 9A Blackflip SDS
12 Charles Albert 9A L’Ombre du Voyageur
13 Jakob Schubert 9A Alphane
14 Nathaniel Coleman 9A No One Mourns the Wicked
15 Noah Wheeler 9A Return of the Sleepwalker
16 Drew Ruana 8C+ Sleepwalker, Creature from the Black Lagoon, Bloody Sunday SDS, Insomniac, Distortion, The Ice Knife SDS, Bookkeeping, Maxwell's Demon Low, Howl at the Moon SDS
17 Matt Fultz 8C+ Hypnotized Minds, Sleepwalker, Grand Illusion, Creature from the Black Lagoon, Brace For the Cure, Moonlight Sonata, Vecchio Leone SDS, Big Z
18 Jimmy Webb 8C+ Creature from the Black Lagoon, Sleepwalker, Ephyra, Off the Wagon Low, Poison the Well, Insomniac
19 Dave Graham 8C+ Creature from the Black Lagoon, Hypnotized Minds, Euclase, Fuck the System, Celestite
20 Niccolò Ceria 8C+ Ephyra, Gioia, La Révolutionnaire Assis, Off the Wagon Low, Pneuma
21 Adam Ondra 8C+ Terranova, Gioia, Ledoborec, Brutal Rider
22 Giuliano Cameroni 8C+ Poison the Well, REM, Ephyra, Off the Wagon Low
23 Ryuichi Murai 8C+ United, Nexus, Floatin, Sleepwalker
24 Andy Lamb 8C+ Creature from the Black Lagoon, Insomniac, Sleepwalker, Event Horizon
25 Zach Galla 8C+ Grand Illusion, Sleepwalker, The Process, Sosa
26 Francesco Berardino 8C+ Off the Wagon Low, Celestite, REM, Return of the Dreamtime
27 Griffin Whiteside 8C+ Creature from the Black Lagoon, Sleepwalker, Howl at the Moon SDS
28 Ryohei Kameyama 8C+ No Kpote Only, La Révolutionnaire Assis, Floatin
29 Yannick Flohé 8C+ Off the Wagon Low, Ephyra, Return of the Dreamtime
30 Toru Nakajima 8C+ Epitaph, Regret, Sleepwalker
31 Dai Koyamada 8C+ The Story of Two Worlds (Low Start), Nayuta
32 Carlo Traversi 8C+ Creature from the Black Lagoon, The Dark Side
33 Nathan Williams 8C+ Sleepwalker, Creature from the Black Lagoon
34 Pablo Hammack 8C+ Sleepwalker, Creature from the Black Lagoon
35 Kazuma Ise 8C+ Hallucination, Epitaph
36 Yuta Imaizumi 8C+ Nayuta, Floatin
37 Florian Wientjes 8C+ Off the Wagon Low, Floatin
38 Austin Purdy 8C+ Insomniac, Sword of Damocles
39 Sam Weir 8C+ REM, Fuck the System
40 Christian Core 8C+ Gioia
41 Rustam Gelmanov 8C+ Hypnotized Minds
42 Daisuke Ichimiya 8C+ Creature from the Black Lagoon
43 Paul Robinson 8C+ REM
44 Dylan Barks 8C+ Creature from the Black Lagoon
45 Taylor McNeill 8C+ Moonlight Sonata
46 Sergii Topishko 8C+ Off the Wagon Low
47 Ignacio Sánchez González 8C+ Daños Con-Laterales
48 Clément Lechaptois 8C+ Fuck the System
49 Colin Duffy 8C+ Bookkeeping
50 Tim Reuser 8C+ La Révolutionnaire Assis
51 Nicolai Užnik 8C+ Emotional Landscapes
52 Michiel Nieuwenhuijsen 8C+ La Révolutionnaire Assis
53 Liam Andrews-Bancroft 8C+ Insomniac
54 Keenan Takahashi 8C+ Insomniac
55 Martin Keller 8C+ Gateway
56 Zander Waller 8C+ Sleepwalker
57 Kai Whaley 8C+ Sleepwalker
58 Stefano Carnati 8C+ Vecchio Leone SDS
59 Lasse von Freier 8C+ Off the Wagon Low
60 Pablo Zamora 8C+ Muerte por Asfixia
61 Keiichiro Korenaga 8C+ Nexus
62 Jabee Kim 8C+ La Révolutionnaire Assis
63 David Fitzgerald 8C+ Big Z
64 Solly Kemball-Dorey 8C+ Isles of Wonder SDS
65 Jorge Díaz-Rullo 8C+ Muerte por Asfixia
66 Pietro Vidi 8C+ Fuck the System
67 Thilo Schröter 8C+ Tsunami
68 Owen Whaley 8C+ Grand Illusion
69 Adam Shahar 8C+ Sleepwalker
70 Nathan Phillips 8C+ Deep Fake
71 Hamish McArthur 8C+ Big Z
72 Lee Sungsu 8C+ The Process