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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75 entries on the list.

Climber Grade Climbs
1 Simon Lorenzi 9A Soudain Seul, Alphane, Burden of Dreams, Return of the Sleepwalker
2 Will Bosi 9A Alphane, Burden of Dreams, Return of the Sleepwalker, Spots of Time
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 Nalle Hukkataival 9A Burden of Dreams
9 Nico Pelorson 9A Soudain Seul
10 Daniel Woods 9A Return of the Sleepwalker
11 Camille Coudert 9A Soudain Seul
12 Vadim Timonov 9A Blackflip SDS
13 Charles Albert 9A L’Ombre du Voyageur
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 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
19 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
20 Jimmy Webb 8C+ Creature from the Black Lagoon, Sleepwalker, Ephyra, Off the Wagon Low, Poison the Well, Insomniac
21 Dave Graham 8C+ Creature from the Black Lagoon, Hypnotized Minds, Euclase, Fuck the System, Celestite
22 Giuliano Cameroni 8C+ Poison the Well, REM, Ephyra, Off the Wagon Low, Curve Ball
23 Niccolò Ceria 8C+ Ephyra, Gioia, La Révolutionnaire Assis, Off the Wagon Low, Pneuma
24 Ryuichi Murai 8C+ United, Nexus, Floatin, Sleepwalker
25 Andy Lamb 8C+ Creature from the Black Lagoon, Insomniac, Sleepwalker, Event Horizon
26 Zach Galla 8C+ Grand Illusion, Sleepwalker, The Process, Sosa
27 Yannick Flohé 8C+ Off the Wagon Low, Ephyra, Return of the Dreamtime, The Story of Three Worlds
28 Francesco Berardino 8C+ Off the Wagon Low, Celestite, REM, Return of the Dreamtime
29 Griffin Whiteside 8C+ Creature from the Black Lagoon, Sleepwalker, Howl at the Moon SDS
30 Ryohei Kameyama 8C+ No Kpote Only, La Révolutionnaire Assis, Floatin
31 Toru Nakajima 8C+ Epitaph, Regret, Sleepwalker
32 Austin Purdy 8C+ Insomniac, Sword of Damocles, Bookkeeping
33 Dai Koyamada 8C+ The Story of Two Worlds (Low Start), Nayuta
34 Daisuke Ichimiya 8C+ Creature from the Black Lagoon, United
35 Carlo Traversi 8C+ Creature from the Black Lagoon, The Dark Side
36 Nathan Williams 8C+ Sleepwalker, Creature from the Black Lagoon
37 Pablo Hammack 8C+ Sleepwalker, Creature from the Black Lagoon
38 Kazuma Ise 8C+ Hallucination, Epitaph
39 Yuta Imaizumi 8C+ Nayuta, Floatin
40 Florian Wientjes 8C+ Off the Wagon Low, Floatin
41 Sam Weir 8C+ REM, Fuck the System
42 Adam Shahar 8C+ Sleepwalker, The Process
43 Christian Core 8C+ Gioia
44 Rustam Gelmanov 8C+ Hypnotized Minds
45 Paul Robinson 8C+ REM
46 Dylan Barks 8C+ Creature from the Black Lagoon
47 Taylor McNeill 8C+ Moonlight Sonata
48 Sergii Topishko 8C+ Off the Wagon Low
49 Ignacio Sánchez González 8C+ Daños Con-Laterales
50 Clément Lechaptois 8C+ Fuck the System
51 Colin Duffy 8C+ Bookkeeping
52 Tim Reuser 8C+ La Révolutionnaire Assis
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
74 Jun Shibanuma 8C+ Sleepwalker
75 Simone Tentori 8C+ Ephyra