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 Elias Iagnemma 9A+ Exodia
2 Simon Lorenzi 9A Soudain Seul, Alphane, Burden of Dreams, Return of the Sleepwalker, Shaolin
3 Will Bosi 9A Alphane, Burden of Dreams, Return of the Sleepwalker, Spots of Time, Realm of Tor’ment
4 Aidan Roberts 9A Alphane, Spots of Time, Arrival of the Birds
5 Jakob Schubert 9A Alphane, Mount Doom, Shaolin
6 Sean Bailey 9A Shaolin, Alphane, Arrival of the Birds
7 Shawn Raboutou 9A Alphane, Megatron
8 Noah Wheeler 9A Return of the Sleepwalker, Shaolin
9 Hamish McArthur 9A Megatron, No One Mourns the Wicked
10 Zach Galla 9A Shaolin, Return of the Sleepwalker
11 Nalle Hukkataival 9A Burden of Dreams
12 Nico Pelorson 9A Soudain Seul
13 Daniel Woods 9A Return of the Sleepwalker
14 Camille Coudert 9A Soudain Seul
15 Vadim Timonov 9A Blackflip SDS
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 Sam Richard 9A Soudain Seul
21 Ryuichi Murai 9A Return of the Sleepwalker
22 Adam Shahar 9A Return of the Sleepwalker
23 Nathan Williams 9A Return of the Sleepwalker
24 Beckett Hsin 9A No One Mourns the Wicked
25 Charles Albert 9A Charlatan
26 Drew Ruana 8C+ Creature from the Black Lagoon, Bloody Sunday SDS, Insomniac, Distortion, The Ice Knife SDS, Bookkeeping, Maxwell's Demon Low, Howl at the Moon SDS
27 Matt Fultz 8C+ Hypnotized Minds, Grand Illusion, Creature from the Black Lagoon, Brace For the Cure, Moonlight Sonata, Vecchio Leone SDS, Big Z, Deep Fake
28 Jimmy Webb 8C+ Livin' Large, Creature from the Black Lagoon, Ephyra, Off the Wagon Low, Poison the Well, Insomniac
29 Dave Graham 8C+ Creature from the Black Lagoon, Hypnotized Minds, Euclase, Fuck the System, Curve Ball
30 Giuliano Cameroni 8C+ Poison the Well, REM, Ephyra, Off the Wagon Low, Curve Ball
31 Niccolò Ceria 8C+ Ephyra, Gioia, La Révolutionnaire, Off the Wagon Low, Pneuma
32 Yannick Flohé 8C+ Off the Wagon Low, Ephyra, Return of the Dreamtime, The Story of Three Worlds
33 Austin Purdy 8C+ Insomniac, Sword of Damocles, Bookkeeping, Distortion
34 Ryohei Kameyama 8C+ No Kpote Only, La Révolutionnaire, Floatin
35 Andy Lamb 8C+ Creature from the Black Lagoon, Insomniac, Event Horizon
36 Francesco Berardino 8C+ Off the Wagon Low, REM, Return of the Dreamtime
37 Sam Weir 8C+ REM, Fuck the System, Poison the Well
38 Ritsu Kayotani 8C+ Nexus, Floatin, Tanpopo
39 Daisuke Ichimiya 8C+ Creature from the Black Lagoon, United
40 Griffin Whiteside 8C+ Creature from the Black Lagoon, Howl at the Moon SDS
41 Paul Robinson 8C+ Karoshi, REM
42 Carlo Traversi 8C+ Creature from the Black Lagoon, The Dark Side
43 Kazuma Ise 8C+ Hallucination, Epitaph
44 Toru Nakajima 8C+ Epitaph, Regret
45 Yuta Imaizumi 8C+ Nayuta, Floatin
46 Clément Lechaptois 8C+ Fuck the System, Permanent Midnight Low
47 Pablo Hammack 8C+ Creature from the Black Lagoon, Ear of Life
48 Florian Wientjes 8C+ Off the Wagon Low, Floatin
49 Liam Andrews-Bancroft 8C+ Insomniac, Creature from the Black Lagoon
50 Keenan Takahashi 8C+ Insomniac, The Dark Side
51 Stefano Carnati 8C+ Vecchio Leone SDS, Deep Fake
52 David Fitzgerald 8C+ Big Z, Last Line of Defense
53 Solly Kemball-Dorey 8C+ Isles of Wonder SDS, The Trident
54 Pietro Vidi 8C+ Fuck the System, Permanent Midnight Low
55 Thilo Schröter 8C+ Tsunami, Spray and Pray
56 Owen Whaley 8C+ Grand Illusion, Sosa
57 Simone Tentori 8C+ Ephyra, Deep Fake
58 Christian Core 8C+ Gioia
59 Rustam Gelmanov 8C+ Hypnotized Minds
60 Dai Koyamada 8C+ Nayuta
61 Dylan Barks 8C+ Creature from the Black Lagoon
62 Taylor McNeill 8C+ Moonlight Sonata
63 Sergii Topishko 8C+ Off the Wagon Low
64 Nacho Sánchez 8C+ Daños Con-Laterales
65 Tim Reuser 8C+ La Révolutionnaire
66 Colin Duffy 8C+ Bookkeeping
67 Michiel Nieuwenhuijsen 8C+ La Révolutionnaire
68 Martin Keller 8C+ Gateway
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 Eli Perry 8C+ Grand Illusion
77 Brian Squire 8C+ Grand Illusion
78 Hyunbin Min 8C+ United
79 Ethan Salvo 8C+ Event Horizon
80 Christopher Cosser 8C+ Creature from the Black Lagoon
81 Ben Hanna 8C+ Grand Illusion
82 Miles Perry 8C+ Grand Illusion
83 Austin Hoyt 8C+ The Process
84 Marco Müller 8C+ The Story of Three Worlds
85 Stefano Ghisolfi 8C+ Gioia