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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68 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 Nalle Hukkataival 9A Burden of Dreams
6 Nico Pelorson 9A Soudain Seul
7 Daniel Woods 9A Return of the Sleepwalker
8 Camille Coudert 9A Soudain Seul
9 Vadim Timonov 9A Blackflip SDS
10 Charles Albert 9A L’Ombre du Voyageur
11 Jakob Schubert 9A Alphane
12 Elias Iagnemma 9A Burden of Dreams
13 Sean Bailey 9A Shaolin
14 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
15 Matt Fultz 8C+ Hypnotized Minds, Sleepwalker, Grand Illusion, Creature from the Black Lagoon, Brace For the Cure, Moonlight Sonata, Vecchio Leone SDS, Big Z
16 Jimmy Webb 8C+ Creature from the Black Lagoon, Sleepwalker, Ephyra, Off the Wagon Low, Poison the Well, Insomniac
17 Dave Graham 8C+ Creature from the Black Lagoon, Hypnotized Minds, Euclase, Fuck the System, Celestite
18 Ryuichi Murai 8C+ Epitaph, United, Nexus, Floatin, Sleepwalker
19 Niccolò Ceria 8C+ Ephyra, Gioia, La Révolutionnaire Assis, Off the Wagon Low, Pneuma
20 Adam Ondra 8C+ Terranova, Gioia, Ledoborec, Brutal Rider
21 Giuliano Cameroni 8C+ Poison the Well, REM, Ephyra, Off the Wagon Low
22 Andy Lamb 8C+ Creature from the Black Lagoon, Insomniac, Sleepwalker, Event Horizon
23 Francesco Berardino 8C+ Off the Wagon Low, Celestite, REM, Return of the Dreamtime
24 Dai Koyamada 8C+ Epitaph, The Story of Two Worlds (Low Start), Nayuta
25 Griffin Whiteside 8C+ Creature from the Black Lagoon, Sleepwalker, Howl at the Moon SDS
26 Ryohei Kameyama 8C+ No Kpote Only, La Révolutionnaire Assis, Floatin
27 Zach Galla 8C+ Grand Illusion, Sleepwalker, The Process
28 Yannick Flohé 8C+ Off the Wagon Low, Ephyra, Return of the Dreamtime
29 Carlo Traversi 8C+ Creature from the Black Lagoon, The Dark Side
30 Nathan Williams 8C+ Sleepwalker, Creature from the Black Lagoon
31 Pablo Hammack 8C+ Sleepwalker, Creature from the Black Lagoon
32 Kazuma Ise 8C+ Hallucination, Epitaph
33 Toru Nakajima 8C+ Epitaph, Regret
34 Yuta Imaizumi 8C+ Nayuta, Floatin
35 Florian Wientjes 8C+ Off the Wagon Low, Floatin
36 Austin Purdy 8C+ Insomniac, Sword of Damocles
37 Sam Weir 8C+ REM, Fuck the System
38 Noah Wheeler 8C+ Sleepwalker, Insomniac
39 Christian Core 8C+ Gioia
40 Rustam Gelmanov 8C+ Hypnotized Minds
41 Daisuke Ichimiya 8C+ Creature from the Black Lagoon
42 Nathaniel Coleman 8C+ Grand Illusion
43 Paul Robinson 8C+ REM
44 Dylan Barks 8C+ Creature from the Black Lagoon
45 Taylor McNeill 8C+ Moonlight Sonata
46 Sergii Topishko 8C+ Off the Wagon Low
47 Ignacio Sánchez González 8C+ Daños Con-Laterales
48 Clément Lechaptois 8C+ Fuck the System
49 Colin Duffy 8C+ Bookkeeping
50 Tim Reuser 8C+ La Révolutionnaire Assis
51 Nicolai Užnik 8C+ Emotional Landscapes
52 Michiel Nieuwenhuijsen 8C+ La Révolutionnaire Assis
53 Liam Andrews-Bancroft 8C+ Insomniac
54 Keenan Takahashi 8C+ Insomniac
55 Martin Keller 8C+ Gateway
56 Zander Waller 8C+ Sleepwalker
57 Kai Whaley 8C+ Sleepwalker
58 Stefano Carnati 8C+ Vecchio Leone SDS
59 Lasse von Freier 8C+ Off the Wagon Low
60 Pablo Zamora 8C+ Muerte por Asfixia
61 Keiichiro Korenaga 8C+ Nexus
62 Jabee Kim 8C+ La Révolutionnaire Assis
63 David Fitzgerald 8C+ Big Z
64 Solly Kemball-Dorey 8C+ Isles of Wonder SDS
65 Jorge Díaz-Rullo 8C+ Muerte por Asfixia
66 Pietro Vidi 8C+ Fuck the System
67 Thilo Schröter 8C+ Tsunami
68 Owen Whaley 8C+ Grand Illusion