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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72 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, Noah Wheeler
4 Megatron 9A Shawn Raboutou, 2022 -
5 Alphane 9A Shawn Raboutou, 6th Apr 2022 Sean Bailey, Will Bosi, Simon Lorenzi, Jakob Schubert, Aidan Roberts
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 Shaolin 9A Sean Bailey, 17th Feb 2024 -
10 Arrival of the Birds 9A Aidan Roberts, Mar 2024 -
11 No One Mourns the Wicked 9A Nathaniel Coleman, Dec 2024 -
12 The Big Slamm 9A Elias Iagnemma, Jan 2025 -
13 Gioia 8C+ Christian Core, Mar 2008 Elias Iagnemma, Niccolò Ceria, Nalle Hukkataival, Adam Ondra
14 Hypnotized Minds 8C+ Daniel Woods, 21st Oct 2010 Dave Graham, Rustam Gelmanov, Matt Fultz
15 Terranova 8C+ Adam Ondra, 10th Nov 2011 -
16 The Story of Two Worlds (Low Start) 8C+ Dai Koyamada, 22nd Mar 2012 -
17 The Ice Knife SDS 8C+ Daniel Woods, 2nd Nov 2013 Drew Ruana
18 The Process 8C+ Daniel Woods, 15th Jan 2015 Lee Sungsu, Zach Galla
19 Creature from the Black Lagoon 8C+ Daniel Woods, 27th Sep 2016 Carlo Traversi, Dave Graham, Jimmy Webb, Dylan Barks, Andy Lamb, Pablo Hammack, Matt Fultz, Nathan Williams, Daisuke Ichimiya, Griffin Whiteside, Drew Ruana, Shawn Raboutou
20 Nayuta 8C+ Dai Koyamada, 4th Apr 2017 Yuta Imaizumi
21 La Révolutionnaire Assis 8C+ Charles Albert, Nov 2017 Ryohei Kameyama, Tim Reuser, Jabee Kim, Niccolò Ceria, Michiel Nieuwenhuijsen, Simon Lorenzi
22 Off the Wagon Low 8C+ Shawn Raboutou, 27th Oct 2018 Simon Lorenzi, Jimmy Webb, Giuliano Cameroni, Lasse von Freier, Niccolò Ceria, Florian Wientjes, Daniel Woods, Francesco Berardino, Sergii Topishko, Yannick Flohé
23 No Kpote Only 8C+ Charles Albert, Dec 2018 Ryohei Kameyama, Nico Pelorson
24 Hypothèse Assis 8C+ Charles Albert, Dec 2018 -
25 Sleepwalker 8C+ Jimmy Webb, 15th Dec 2018 Daniel Woods, Drew Ruana, Kai Whaley, Griffin Whiteside, Nalle Hukkataival, Will Bosi, Ryuichi Murai, Adam Shahar, Toru Nakajima, Nathan Williams, Zander Waller, Andy Lamb, Noah Wheeler, Zach Galla, Matt Fultz, Pablo Hammack
26 Poison the Well 8C+ Giuliano Cameroni, 12th Feb 2019 Jimmy Webb
27 REM 8C+ Giuliano Cameroni, 22nd Feb 2019 Francesco Berardino, Sam Weir, Paul Robinson
28 Ephyra 8C+ Jimmy Webb, 29th Mar 2019 Yannick Flohé, Niccolò Ceria, Will Bosi, Giuliano Cameroni
29 United 8C+ Ryuichi Murai, 7th Nov 2019 Shawn Raboutou
30 Grand Illusion 8C+ Nathaniel Coleman, 2020 Matt Fultz, Zach Galla, Owen Whaley, Sean Bailey, Daniel Woods
31 Ledoborec 8C+ Adam Ondra, 24th May 2020 -
32 Brutal Rider 8C+ Adam Ondra, 25th May 2020 -
33 Superpowers 8C+ Aidan Roberts, 11th Sep 2020 -
34 Big Z 8C+ Shawn Raboutou, 29th Dec 2020 Matt Fultz, Hamish McArthur, David Fitzgerald
35 Howl at the Moon SDS 8C+ Griffin Whiteside, 2021 Drew Ruana
36 Bloody Sunday SDS 8C+ Drew Ruana, 30th Apr 2021 -
37 Fuck the System 8C+ Shawn Raboutou, Jul 2021 Clément Lechaptois, Sam Weir, Pietro Vidi, Dave Graham
38 Insomniac 8C+ Drew Ruana, 9th Jul 2021 Daniel Woods, Noah Wheeler, Andy Lamb, Austin Purdy, Keenan Takahashi, Shawn Raboutou, Jimmy Webb, Liam Andrews-Bancroft
39 Moonlight Sonata 8C+ Taylor McNeill, 3rd Oct 2021 Matt Fultz
40 Nexus 8C+ Ryuichi Murai, 23rd Oct 2021 Keiichiro Korenaga
41 Floatin 8C+ Ryuichi Murai, 10th Dec 2021 Florian Wientjes, Yuta Imaizumi, Ryohei Kameyama, Sean Bailey
42 Hallucination 8C+ Kazuma Ise, 19th Dec 2021 -
43 The Story of Three Worlds 8C+ Shawn Raboutou, 2022 -
44 Big Conviction 8C+ Simon Lorenzi, 23rd Jan 2022 -
45 Ganesh 8C+ Elias Iagnemma, 2nd Feb 2022 -
46 Euclase 8C+ Dave Graham, 20th Apr 2022 -
47 Daños Con-Laterales 8C+ Ignacio Sánchez González, Jun 2022 -
48 Brace For the Cure 8C+ Matt Fultz, Jun 2022 -
49 Isles of Wonder SDS 8C+ Aidan Roberts, Jul 2022 Will Bosi, Solly Kemball-Dorey
50 Distortion 8C+ Drew Ruana, Aug 2022 -
51 Honey Badger 8C+ Will Bosi, 10th Aug 2022 -
52 Vecchio Leone SDS 8C+ Aidan Roberts, Nov 2022 Matt Fultz, Stefano Carnati
53 Bookkeeping 8C+ Drew Ruana, 21st Dec 2022 Colin Duffy
54 Return of the Dreamtime 8C+ Yannick Flohé, 31st Jan 2023 Francesco Berardino
55 Maxwell's Demon Low 8C+ Drew Ruana, 16th Feb 2023 -
56 The Lion's Share 8C+ Aidan Roberts, Between 18th Feb 2023 and 9th Mar 2023 -
57 Celestite 8C+ Dave Graham, 28th Mar 2023 Francesco Berardino
58 The Wild South 8C+ Will Bosi, 26th Apr 2023 -
59 Gateway 8C+ Martin Keller, Oct 2023 -
60 The Dark Side 8C+ Carlo Traversi, 23rd Dec 2023 -
61 Devilution 8C+ Sean Bailey, Jan 2024 Shawn Raboutou
62 Adrenaline 8C+ Daniel Woods, Between 1st Jan 2024 and 7th Feb 2024 -
63 Regret 8C+ Toru Nakajima, Between 1st Jan 2024 and 1st Mar 2024 -
64 Pneuma 8C+ Niccolò Ceria, 2024 -
65 Muerte por Asfixia 8C+ Pablo Zamora, 4th Jan 2024 Jorge Díaz-Rullo
66 Event Horizon 8C+ Andy Lamb, 10th Feb 2024 -
67 Sosa 8C+ Zach Galla, 28th May 2024 -
68 Tsunami 8C+ Thilo Schröter, Oct 2024 -
69 Sword of Damocles 8C+ Austin Purdy, 26th Oct 2024 -
70 Deep Fake 8C+ Nathan Phillips, 3rd Dec 2024 -
71 Epitaph 8C+ - Kazuma Ise, Toru Nakajima
72 Emotional Landscapes 8C+ - Nicolai Užnik