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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85 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 Jakob Schubert 9A Alphane
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 Ritsu Kayotani 8C+ Nexus, Floatin
55 Christian Core 8C+ Gioia
56 James Kassay 8C+ Wheel of Life Direct
57 Rustam Gelmanov 8C+ Hypnotized Minds
58 Paul Robinson 8C+ REM
59 Dylan Barks 8C+ Creature from the Black Lagoon
60 Taylor McNeill 8C+ Moonlight Sonata
61 Sergii Topishko 8C+ Off the Wagon Low
62 Ignacio Sánchez González 8C+ Daños Con-Laterales
63 Tim Reuser 8C+ La Révolutionnaire
64 Colin Duffy 8C+ Bookkeeping
65 Michiel Nieuwenhuijsen 8C+ La Révolutionnaire
66 Martin Keller 8C+ Gateway
67 Zander Waller 8C+ Sleepwalker
68 Kai Whaley 8C+ Sleepwalker
69 Lasse von Freier 8C+ Off the Wagon Low
70 Pablo Zamora 8C+ Muerte por Asfixia
71 Keiichiro Korenaga 8C+ Nexus
72 Jabee Kim 8C+ La Révolutionnaire
73 Jorge Díaz-Rullo 8C+ Muerte por Asfixia
74 Nathan Phillips 8C+ Deep Fake
75 Stefan Hochbaum 8C+ Obsidan
76 Jun Shibanuma 8C+ Sleepwalker
77 Simone Tentori 8C+ Ephyra
78 Eli Perry 8C+ Grand Illusion
79 Brian Squire 8C+ Grand Illusion
80 Hyunbin Min 8C+ United
81 Tamas Zupan 8C+ Brain Rot
82 Ethan Salvo 8C+ Event Horizon
83 Christopher Cosser 8C+ Creature from the Black Lagoon
84 Beckett Hsin 8C+ Creature from the Black Lagoon
85 Luke Gerhardt 8C+ Sleepwalker