The Hardest Boulder Problems in the World

A list of all the boulder problems 8C+ or harder that have currently been climbed, including details of the first ascent.

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66 entries on the list.

Climb Grade First Ascent Repeats
1 Burden of Dreams 9A Nalle Hukkataival, 24th Oct 2016 Will Bosi, Simon Lorenzi, Elias Iagnemma
2 Soudain Seul 9A Simon Lorenzi, 8th Feb 2021 Nico Pelorson, Camille Coudert
3 Return of the Sleepwalker 9A Daniel Woods, 31st Mar 2021 Will Bosi
4 Megatron 9A Shawn Raboutou, 2022 -
5 Alphane 9A Shawn Raboutou, 6th Apr 2022 Simon Lorenzi, Aidan Roberts, Jakob Schubert, Will Bosi
6 Blackflip SDS 9A Vadim Timonov, 17th May 2023 -
7 L’Ombre du Voyageur 9A Charles Albert, 18th Oct 2023 -
8 Spots of Time 9A Aidan Roberts, Feb 2024 Will Bosi
9 Arrival of the Birds 9A Aidan Roberts, Mar 2024 -
10 Gioia 8C+ Christian Core, Mar 2008 Adam Ondra, Elias Iagnemma, Niccolò Ceria, Nalle Hukkataival
11 Epitaph 8C+ Dai Koyamada, 2009 Kazuma Ise, Ryuichi Murai, Toru Nakajima
12 Hypnotized Minds 8C+ Daniel Woods, 21st Oct 2010 Dave Graham, Matt Fultz, Rustam Gelmanov
13 Terranova 8C+ Adam Ondra, 10th Nov 2011 -
14 The Story of Two Worlds (Low Start) 8C+ Dai Koyamada, 22nd Mar 2012 -
15 The Ice Knife SDS 8C+ Daniel Woods, 2nd Nov 2013 Drew Ruana
16 The Process 8C+ Daniel Woods, 15th Jan 2015 Zach Galla
17 Creature from the Black Lagoon 8C+ Daniel Woods, 27th Sep 2016 Pablo Hammack, Andy Lamb, Carlo Traversi, Jimmy Webb, Dave Graham, Griffin Whiteside, Daisuke Ichimiya, Shawn Raboutou, Drew Ruana, Nathan Williams, Dylan Barks, Matt Fultz
18 Nayuta 8C+ Dai Koyamada, 4th Apr 2017 Yuta Imaizumi
19 La Révolutionnaire Assis 8C+ Charles Albert, Nov 2017 Tim Reuser, Michiel Nieuwenhuijsen, Simon Lorenzi, Ryohei Kameyama, Niccolò Ceria, Jabee Kim
20 Off the Wagon Low 8C+ Shawn Raboutou, 27th Oct 2018 Sergii Topishko, Daniel Woods, Simon Lorenzi, Yannick Flohé, Giuliano Cameroni, Lasse von Freier, Florian Wientjes, Niccolò Ceria, Francesco Berardino, Jimmy Webb
21 No Kpote Only 8C+ Charles Albert, Dec 2018 Ryohei Kameyama, Nico Pelorson
22 Hypothèse Assis 8C+ Charles Albert, Dec 2018 -
23 Sleepwalker 8C+ Jimmy Webb, 15th Dec 2018 Nathan Williams, Matt Fultz, Griffin Whiteside, Pablo Hammack, Ryuichi Murai, Zach Galla, Drew Ruana, Andy Lamb, Zander Waller, Nalle Hukkataival, Will Bosi, Kai Whaley, Noah Wheeler, Daniel Woods
24 Poison the Well 8C+ Giuliano Cameroni, 12th Feb 2019 Jimmy Webb
25 REM 8C+ Giuliano Cameroni, 22nd Feb 2019 Sam Weir, Paul Robinson, Francesco Berardino
26 Ephyra 8C+ Jimmy Webb, 29th Mar 2019 Yannick Flohé, Niccolò Ceria, Will Bosi, Giuliano Cameroni
27 United 8C+ Ryuichi Murai, 7th Nov 2019 Shawn Raboutou
28 Grand Illusion 8C+ Nathaniel Coleman, 2020 Owen Whaley, Sean Bailey, Daniel Woods, Zach Galla, Matt Fultz
29 Ledoborec 8C+ Adam Ondra, 24th May 2020 -
30 Brutal Rider 8C+ Adam Ondra, 25th May 2020 -
31 Superpowers 8C+ Aidan Roberts, 11th Sep 2020 -
32 Big Z 8C+ Shawn Raboutou, 29th Dec 2020 David Fitzgerald, Matt Fultz
33 Howl at the Moon SDS 8C+ Griffin Whiteside, 2021 Drew Ruana
34 Bloody Sunday SDS 8C+ Drew Ruana, 30th Apr 2021 -
35 Fuck the System 8C+ Shawn Raboutou, Jul 2021 Clément Lechaptois, Dave Graham, Pietro Vidi, Sam Weir
36 Insomniac 8C+ Drew Ruana, 9th Jul 2021 Keenan Takahashi, Shawn Raboutou, Andy Lamb, Daniel Woods, Austin Purdy, Jimmy Webb, Liam Andrews-Bancroft, Noah Wheeler
37 Moonlight Sonata 8C+ Taylor McNeill, 3rd Oct 2021 Matt Fultz
38 Nexus 8C+ Ryuichi Murai, 23rd Oct 2021 Keiichiro Korenaga
39 Floatin 8C+ Ryuichi Murai, 10th Dec 2021 Florian Wientjes, Ryohei Kameyama
40 Hallucination 8C+ Kazuma Ise, 19th Dec 2021 -
41 The Story of Three Worlds 8C+ Shawn Raboutou, 2022 -
42 Big Conviction 8C+ Simon Lorenzi, 23rd Jan 2022 -
43 Ganesh 8C+ Elias Iagnemma, 2nd Feb 2022 -
44 Euclase 8C+ Dave Graham, 20th Apr 2022 -
45 Daños Con-Laterales 8C+ Ignacio Sánchez González, Jun 2022 -
46 Brace For the Cure 8C+ Matt Fultz, Jun 2022 -
47 Isles of Wonder SDS 8C+ Aidan Roberts, Jul 2022 Will Bosi, Solly Kemball-Dorey
48 Distortion 8C+ Drew Ruana, Aug 2022 -
49 Honey Badger 8C+ Will Bosi, 10th Aug 2022 -
50 Vecchio Leone SDS 8C+ Aidan Roberts, Nov 2022 Matt Fultz, Stefano Carnati
51 Bookkeeping 8C+ Drew Ruana, 21st Dec 2022 Colin Duffy
52 Return of the Dreamtime 8C+ Yannick Flohé, 31st Jan 2023 Francesco Berardino
53 Maxwell's Demon Low 8C+ Drew Ruana, 16th Feb 2023 -
54 The Lion's Share 8C+ Aidan Roberts, Between 18th Feb 2023 and 9th Mar 2023 -
55 Celestite 8C+ Dave Graham, 28th Mar 2023 Francesco Berardino
56 Gateway 8C+ Martin Keller, Oct 2023 -
57 The Dark Side 8C+ Carlo Traversi, 23rd Dec 2023 -
58 Devilution 8C+ Sean Bailey, Jan 2024 Shawn Raboutou
59 Adrenaline 8C+ Daniel Woods, Between 1st Jan 2024 and 7th Feb 2024 -
60 Regret 8C+ Toru Nakajima, Between 1st Jan 2024 and 1st Mar 2024 -
61 Pneuma 8C+ Niccolò Ceria, 2024 -
62 Muerte por Asfixia 8C+ Pablo Zamora, 4th Jan 2024 Jorge Díaz-Rullo
63 Event Horizon 8C+ Andy Lamb, Feb 2024 -
64 Tsunami 8C+ Thilo Schröter, Oct 2024 -
65 Hydrangea 8C+ - Akira Waku, Takuya Nakajima, Shinichiro Nomura, Jun Shibanuma
66 Emotional Landscapes 8C+ - Nicolai Užnik