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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73 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 Adam Ondra 9A Soudain Seul
17 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
18 Matt Fultz 8C+ Hypnotized Minds, Sleepwalker, Grand Illusion, Creature from the Black Lagoon, Brace For the Cure, Moonlight Sonata, Vecchio Leone SDS, Big Z
19 Jimmy Webb 8C+ Creature from the Black Lagoon, Sleepwalker, Ephyra, Off the Wagon Low, Poison the Well, Insomniac
20 Dave Graham 8C+ Creature from the Black Lagoon, Hypnotized Minds, Euclase, Fuck the System, Celestite
21 Niccolò Ceria 8C+ Ephyra, Gioia, La Révolutionnaire Assis, Off the Wagon Low, Pneuma
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 Yannick Flohé 8C+ Off the Wagon Low, Ephyra, Return of the Dreamtime, The Story of Three Worlds
27 Francesco Berardino 8C+ Off the Wagon Low, Celestite, REM, Return of the Dreamtime
28 Griffin Whiteside 8C+ Creature from the Black Lagoon, Sleepwalker, Howl at the Moon SDS
29 Ryohei Kameyama 8C+ No Kpote Only, La Révolutionnaire Assis, Floatin
30 Toru Nakajima 8C+ Epitaph, Regret, Sleepwalker
31 Dai Koyamada 8C+ The Story of Two Worlds (Low Start), Nayuta
32 Daisuke Ichimiya 8C+ Creature from the Black Lagoon, United
33 Carlo Traversi 8C+ Creature from the Black Lagoon, The Dark Side
34 Nathan Williams 8C+ Sleepwalker, Creature from the Black Lagoon
35 Pablo Hammack 8C+ Sleepwalker, Creature from the Black Lagoon
36 Kazuma Ise 8C+ Hallucination, Epitaph
37 Yuta Imaizumi 8C+ Nayuta, Floatin
38 Florian Wientjes 8C+ Off the Wagon Low, Floatin
39 Austin Purdy 8C+ Insomniac, Sword of Damocles
40 Sam Weir 8C+ REM, Fuck the System
41 Adam Shahar 8C+ Sleepwalker, The Process
42 Christian Core 8C+ Gioia
43 Rustam Gelmanov 8C+ Hypnotized Minds
44 Paul Robinson 8C+ REM
45 Dylan Barks 8C+ Creature from the Black Lagoon
46 Taylor McNeill 8C+ Moonlight Sonata
47 Sergii Topishko 8C+ Off the Wagon Low
48 Ignacio Sánchez González 8C+ Daños Con-Laterales
49 Clément Lechaptois 8C+ Fuck the System
50 Colin Duffy 8C+ Bookkeeping
51 Tim Reuser 8C+ La Révolutionnaire Assis
52 Nicolai Užnik 8C+ Emotional Landscapes
53 Michiel Nieuwenhuijsen 8C+ La Révolutionnaire Assis
54 Liam Andrews-Bancroft 8C+ Insomniac
55 Keenan Takahashi 8C+ Insomniac
56 Martin Keller 8C+ Gateway
57 Zander Waller 8C+ Sleepwalker
58 Kai Whaley 8C+ Sleepwalker
59 Stefano Carnati 8C+ Vecchio Leone SDS
60 Lasse von Freier 8C+ Off the Wagon Low
61 Pablo Zamora 8C+ Muerte por Asfixia
62 Keiichiro Korenaga 8C+ Nexus
63 Jabee Kim 8C+ La Révolutionnaire Assis
64 David Fitzgerald 8C+ Big Z
65 Solly Kemball-Dorey 8C+ Isles of Wonder SDS
66 Jorge Díaz-Rullo 8C+ Muerte por Asfixia
67 Pietro Vidi 8C+ Fuck the System
68 Thilo Schröter 8C+ Tsunami
69 Owen Whaley 8C+ Grand Illusion
70 Nathan Phillips 8C+ Deep Fake
71 Hamish McArthur 8C+ Big Z
72 Lee Sungsu 8C+ The Process
73 Stefan Hochbaum 8C+ Obsidan