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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81 entries on the list.

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