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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87 entries on the list.

Climber Grade Climbs
1 Elias Iagnemma 9A+ Exodia
2 Will Bosi 9A Alphane, Burden of Dreams, Return of the Sleepwalker, Spots of Time, Realm of Tor’ment
3 Simon Lorenzi 9A Soudain Seul, Alphane, Burden of Dreams, Return of the Sleepwalker
4 Aidan Roberts 9A Alphane, Spots of Time, Arrival of the Birds
5 Sean Bailey 9A Shaolin, Alphane, Arrival of the Birds
6 Shawn Raboutou 9A Alphane, Megatron
7 Jakob Schubert 9A Alphane, Mount Doom
8 Noah Wheeler 9A Return of the Sleepwalker, Shaolin
9 Hamish McArthur 9A Megatron, No One Mourns the Wicked
10 Nalle Hukkataival 9A Burden of Dreams
11 Nico Pelorson 9A Soudain Seul
12 Daniel Woods 9A Return of the Sleepwalker
13 Camille Coudert 9A Soudain Seul
14 Vadim Timonov 9A Blackflip SDS
15 Nathaniel Coleman 9A No One Mourns the Wicked
16 Adam Ondra 9A Soudain Seul
17 Nicolai Užnik 9A Mount Doom
18 Lee Sungsu 9A Burden of Dreams
19 Sam Richard 9A Soudain Seul
20 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
21 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
22 Jimmy Webb 8C+ Livin' Large, Creature from the Black Lagoon, Sleepwalker, Ephyra, Off the Wagon Low, Poison the Well, Insomniac
23 Dave Graham 8C+ Creature from the Black Lagoon, Hypnotized Minds, Euclase, Fuck the System, Celestite, Curve Ball
24 Giuliano Cameroni 8C+ Poison the Well, REM, Ephyra, Off the Wagon Low, Curve Ball
25 Ryuichi Murai 8C+ United, Nexus, Floatin, Sleepwalker, Livin' Large
26 Niccolò Ceria 8C+ Ephyra, Gioia, La Révolutionnaire, Off the Wagon Low, Pneuma
27 Zach Galla 8C+ Grand Illusion, Sleepwalker, The Process, Sosa, Hypnotized Minds
28 Andy Lamb 8C+ Creature from the Black Lagoon, Insomniac, Sleepwalker, Event Horizon
29 Yannick Flohé 8C+ Off the Wagon Low, Ephyra, Return of the Dreamtime, The Story of Three Worlds
30 Francesco Berardino 8C+ Off the Wagon Low, Celestite, REM, Return of the Dreamtime
31 Austin Purdy 8C+ Insomniac, Sword of Damocles, Bookkeeping, Distortion
32 Griffin Whiteside 8C+ Creature from the Black Lagoon, Sleepwalker, Howl at the Moon SDS
33 Ryohei Kameyama 8C+ No Kpote Only, La Révolutionnaire, Floatin
34 Toru Nakajima 8C+ Epitaph, Regret, Sleepwalker
35 Sam Weir 8C+ REM, Fuck the System, Brain Rot
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 Liam Andrews-Bancroft 8C+ Insomniac, Creature from the Black Lagoon
46 Keenan Takahashi 8C+ Insomniac, The Dark Side
47 Stefano Carnati 8C+ Vecchio Leone SDS, Deep Fake
48 David Fitzgerald 8C+ Big Z, Last Line of Defense
49 Solly Kemball-Dorey 8C+ Isles of Wonder SDS, The Trident
50 Pietro Vidi 8C+ Fuck the System, Permanent Midnight Low
51 Thilo Schröter 8C+ Tsunami, Spray and Pray
52 Owen Whaley 8C+ Grand Illusion, Sosa
53 Adam Shahar 8C+ Sleepwalker, The Process
54 Eli Perry 8C+ Grand Illusion, Sleepwalker
55 Ritsu Kayotani 8C+ Nexus, Floatin
56 Christian Core 8C+ Gioia
57 James Kassay 8C+ Wheel of Life Direct
58 Jorg Verhoeven 8C+ Wheel of Life Direct
59 Rustam Gelmanov 8C+ Hypnotized Minds
60 Paul Robinson 8C+ REM
61 Dylan Barks 8C+ Creature from the Black Lagoon
62 Taylor McNeill 8C+ Moonlight Sonata
63 Sergii Topishko 8C+ Off the Wagon Low
64 Ignacio Sánchez González 8C+ Daños Con-Laterales
65 Tim Reuser 8C+ La Révolutionnaire
66 Colin Duffy 8C+ Bookkeeping
67 Michiel Nieuwenhuijsen 8C+ La Révolutionnaire
68 Martin Keller 8C+ Gateway
69 Zander Waller 8C+ Sleepwalker
70 Kai Whaley 8C+ Sleepwalker
71 Lasse von Freier 8C+ Off the Wagon Low
72 Pablo Zamora 8C+ Muerte por Asfixia
73 Keiichiro Korenaga 8C+ Nexus
74 Jabee Kim 8C+ La Révolutionnaire
75 Jorge Díaz-Rullo 8C+ Muerte por Asfixia
76 Nathan Phillips 8C+ Deep Fake
77 Stefan Hochbaum 8C+ Obsidan
78 Jun Shibanuma 8C+ Sleepwalker
79 Simone Tentori 8C+ Ephyra
80 Brian Squire 8C+ Grand Illusion
81 Hyunbin Min 8C+ United
82 Tamas Zupan 8C+ Brain Rot
83 Ethan Salvo 8C+ Event Horizon
84 Christopher Cosser 8C+ Creature from the Black Lagoon
85 Beckett Hsin 8C+ Creature from the Black Lagoon
86 Luke Gerhardt 8C+ Sleepwalker
87 Ben Hanna 8C+ Grand Illusion