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 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 Assis, Off the Wagon Low, Pneuma
27 Andy Lamb 8C+ Creature from the Black Lagoon, Insomniac, Sleepwalker, Event Horizon
28 Zach Galla 8C+ Grand Illusion, Sleepwalker, The Process, Sosa
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 Griffin Whiteside 8C+ Creature from the Black Lagoon, Sleepwalker, Howl at the Moon SDS
32 Ryohei Kameyama 8C+ No Kpote Only, La Révolutionnaire Assis, Floatin
33 Toru Nakajima 8C+ Epitaph, Regret, Sleepwalker
34 Austin Purdy 8C+ Insomniac, Sword of Damocles, Bookkeeping
35 Dai Koyamada 8C+ The Story of Two Worlds (Low Start), Nayuta
36 Daisuke Ichimiya 8C+ Creature from the Black Lagoon, United
37 Carlo Traversi 8C+ Creature from the Black Lagoon, The Dark Side
38 Nathan Williams 8C+ Sleepwalker, Creature from the Black Lagoon
39 Pablo Hammack 8C+ Sleepwalker, Creature from the Black Lagoon
40 Kazuma Ise 8C+ Hallucination, Epitaph
41 Yuta Imaizumi 8C+ Nayuta, Floatin
42 Clément Lechaptois 8C+ Fuck the System, Permanent Midnight Low
43 Florian Wientjes 8C+ Off the Wagon Low, Floatin
44 Keenan Takahashi 8C+ Insomniac, The Dark Side
45 Sam Weir 8C+ REM, Fuck the System
46 David Fitzgerald 8C+ Big Z, Last Line of Defense
47 Owen Whaley 8C+ Grand Illusion, Sosa
48 Adam Shahar 8C+ Sleepwalker, The Process
49 Christian Core 8C+ Gioia
50 Rustam Gelmanov 8C+ Hypnotized Minds
51 Paul Robinson 8C+ REM
52 Dylan Barks 8C+ Creature from the Black Lagoon
53 Taylor McNeill 8C+ Moonlight Sonata
54 Sergii Topishko 8C+ Off the Wagon Low
55 Ignacio Sánchez González 8C+ Daños Con-Laterales
56 Tim Reuser 8C+ La Révolutionnaire Assis
57 Colin Duffy 8C+ Bookkeeping
58 Michiel Nieuwenhuijsen 8C+ La Révolutionnaire Assis
59 Liam Andrews-Bancroft 8C+ Insomniac
60 Martin Keller 8C+ Gateway
61 Zander Waller 8C+ Sleepwalker
62 Kai Whaley 8C+ Sleepwalker
63 Stefano Carnati 8C+ Vecchio Leone SDS
64 Lasse von Freier 8C+ Off the Wagon Low
65 Pablo Zamora 8C+ Muerte por Asfixia
66 Keiichiro Korenaga 8C+ Nexus
67 Jabee Kim 8C+ La Révolutionnaire Assis
68 Solly Kemball-Dorey 8C+ Isles of Wonder SDS
69 Jorge Díaz-Rullo 8C+ Muerte por Asfixia
70 Pietro Vidi 8C+ Fuck the System
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 Ethan Salvo 8C+ Event Horizon
81 Tamas Zupan 8C+ Brain Rot