Strong British Male Boulderers

The best British male boulderers.

This list aims to list any male British boulderer who has climbed 8B or harder. It attempts to be definitive in terms of the people included but does not attempt to enumerate every relevant ascent.

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209 entries on the list.

Climber Grade Climbs
1 Will Bosi 9A Alphane, Burden of Dreams, Return of the Sleepwalker, Spots of Time, Realm of Tor’ment
2 Aidan Roberts 9A Alphane, Spots of Time, Arrival of the Birds
3 Hamish McArthur 9A Megatron, No One Mourns the Wicked
4 Solly Kemball-Dorey 8C+ Isles of Wonder SDS, The Trident
5 Nathan Phillips 8C+ Deep Fake
6 Toby Saxton 8C Babylon, Golden Daze, Monkey Wedding, The Finnish Line, Arzak, Iechyd da
7 Eliot Stephens 8C Arzak, From Dirt Grows the Flowers, The Origin SDS, Dreamtime, Zircon, The Malleus Maleficarum
8 Ned Feehally 8C The Big Island, The Last Anasazi, Sine Language, Underwave, Serenata
9 James Squire 8C The World is Yours, Spray of Light, Ambition, Paradise Found
10 Mike Adams 8C Serenata, Serenataon
11 James Pearson 8C Juneru, Mystic River
12 Sam Blackwell 8C Paradise Found, Trance
13 Sam Prior 8C Serenata, Trance
14 Tim Clifford 8C The Singularity
15 Tyler Landman 8C Satan i Helvete Assis (pre-December 2013)
16 Dawid Skoczylas 8C Serenata
17 Mathew Wright 8C Serenata
18 Orrin Coley 8C Ultra Instinct
19 Jonny Kydd 8C The World is Yours
20 Leo Skinner 8C Paradise Found
21 Ben Bransby 8C Big Leviathan Extended (Sans Resin)
22 Alex Barrows 8C Pretence of Youth
23 Max Milne 8C Forgotten Gem
24 Billy Ridal 8C The Big Island
25 Pete Dawson 8C Trance
26 Eli Cartwright 8C Trance
27 Dan Varian 8B+ Serendipity, Little Women, Dandelion Mind, Bewilderness, The Rail, Star Power, L'Alchemiste, La Ligne de Bête, Bombadil, Crescendo, Lower Limbs, The Magna Strata, Weeping Arete, Forgotten Lands, Reality Drift
28 Dave MacLeod 8B+ Big Long Now, Seven of Nine, New Base Line, Mystic Stylez, Natural Method, Practice of the Wild, Lithium, Gut Buster, Below Zero, Bultitude, From Shallow Water to Riverbed, Catalan Witness the Fitness
29 Jack Palmieri 8B+ Silk Cut, Triggerocity-Upper Cut, Pilgrimage, The Hatchlink, Little Women, Last Wave Goodbye, Megalodon, Louis Cut, Dernier Uppercut, Bewilderness, Leftovers
30 Dan Turner 8B+ Dandelion Mind, Bewilderness, Monk Life, Voyager SDS, Little Women, Asphyxia, Knife at the Opera
31 Micky Page 8B+ Khéops Assis, From Dirt Grows the Flowers (Left), Big Paw, Monk Life, Ill Thrill, Black Eagle
32 James Noble 8B+ Dandelion Mind, Serenade, Golden Shadow, Bordello SDS, Bone Machine into Hats for Weasels via Rubble Rouser, Last Wave Goodbye
33 Malcolm Smith 8B+ Leviathan, Monk Life, Pilgrimage, Dreamtime (pre break), Gut Buster
34 Dave Mason 8B+ Bewilderness, Mortal Immortal, Dandelion Mind, Last Wave Goodbye, Fleeting Youth
35 Tim Blake 8B+ Star Power, Orlok, Crescendo, Monk Life
36 Tom Newman 8B+ Fire in the Rain, Dandelion Mind, Serendipity
37 Mike Hart 8B+ Pilgrimage, Loucifer, Louis Cut
38 Hamish Potokar 8B+ Spaceship, Fotofobia SDS, El Elegido
39 Joe Lawson 8B+ Tomahawk, Mortal Immortal, Fleeting Youth
40 Ben Moon 8B+ Superman SDS, Voyager SDS
41 Steve Dunning 8B+ Ullola, Dreamtime (pre break)
42 Sam Davenhall 8B+ Kaizen, At the Heart of It All
43 Dave Jones 8B+ Dandelion Mind, Warpath
44 Ben Freeman 8B+ Dandelion Mind, Monk Life
45 Tom Peckitt 8B+ Amandla, Memento
46 Alex Waterhouse 8B+ New Base Line, The Never Ending Story (Part 1+2)
47 Rhys Langlands 8B+ Below Zero, Off the Wagon
48 Felix Wilkins 8B+ Weeding the Lip, Dandelion Mind
49 Ben Preston 8B+ Gecko Assis, The Origin
50 Elliot Verry 8B+ Hatch Armstrong, Power of Now
51 Flinn Mcinerney 8B+ Impropa Sit Propera, Sit Propera
52 Dylan Soin 8B+ Dandelion Mind, Pilgrimage
53 Matthew Mendes 8B+ Bewilderness, The Long Night
54 Gus Turner 8B+ Tomahawk, Ullola
55 Andy Earl 8B+ Monk Life
56 Neil Dyer 8B+ Silk Cut
57 Stewart Watson 8B+ Memento
58 Dave Barrans 8B+ Gecko Assis
59 Simon Newstead 8B+ The Island
60 Joe Wilson 8B+ Blood Sport LH
61 Ethan Walker 8B+ Dandelion Mind
62 Will Smith 8B+ Weeding the Lip
63 Liam Fyfe 8B+ The Origin
64 Rob Hunter 8B+ Blondie SDS
65 Kieran Forrest 8B+ Pilgrimage
66 Phil Rose 8B+ Spaceship
67 Rajendra Pun 8B+ Spaceship
68 Buster Martin 8B+ The Never Ending Story (Part 1+2)
69 Luke Dawson 8B+ Tigris SDS
70 Tom Bolger 8B+ Mr. Potatoe
71 Jim Pope 8B+ Kindred
72 Adam Wheeler 8B+ Superman SDS
73 Leven Rowan 8B+ Pool of Bethesda (Skindog Start)
74 Alex Moore 8B+ Smiling Buttress
75 Luca Martins 8B+ Bewilderness
76 Lewis Roy 8B+ Bultitude
77 Tom Williams 8B+ Húsafell
78 Pete Robins 8B+ Silk Cut
79 Adam Smith 8B Combination, After Ava Arrives, Ava's Arrived, The Winner Takes It All, Infamous, Magic in the Woods, Crown Worthay
80 Harry Constantine 8B Superman, Rhythm, Patina Turner, Outliers, Cherry Falls Sit, Flip Flopera, Hard Times
81 Mark Katz 8B Isla de Encanta, High Fidelity, Yes We Can, Rhythm, Voyager, River Runs Dry
82 Chris Davies 8B East Coker, Compact Culture, The Power of Goodbye, A Life Aesthetic, My Own Private Idaho, The Neon Handshake
83 Rob Cook 8B Skiroute Project, Keen Roof - Nachos Start, Meadowlark Lemon, After Ava Arrives, Kubalik
84 Jamie Rankin 8B Merlin's Beard, Magic in the Woods, Combination, The Winner Takes It All, Crown Worthay
85 Ryan Pasquill 8B Shallow Groove, Spectre, Cypher, The Ace
86 Matt Birch 8B Slashface, The Swarm, High Fidelity, The Mandala SDS
87 Keith Bradbury 8B Khéops, La Danse des Balrogs, Ammagamma, Gourmandise
88 Fraser Moodie 8B Supersize Me, Sanction, Amber, Pressure
89 Arlo Rogers 8B Weapons Cache, Mega Ten Plus, Goliath Extension, Louis Left
90 Rhys Conlon 8B Le Dernier Atrocity, Fat Lip, Godzilla SDS, WADzilla
91 Steve McClure 8B Malc's Traverse, Close of Business, Fat Lip
92 Martin Smith 8B General Disarray, Superman, Working Class Sit Start
93 Tim Palmer 8B The Mandala SDS, High Fidelity, Elephunk
94 Tom Williams 8B Dead and Bloated, The Ace, The Hourglass
95 Euan MacFadyen 8B Dark Sakai, The Vice, King of Limbs
96 Danny Cattell 8B Wedgie Wall, Paper Birds Low, Le Dernier Atrocity
97 Ash Wolsey-Heard 8B Vecchio Leone, Fat Lip, Voyager
98 Sam Hunter 8B Elephunk, Mufasa, The Ace
99 Craig Davies 8B Compact Culture, The Hourglass, Nine Pinch Nails
100 John Schindler 8B Working Class Sit Start, Flip Flopera, Amber
101 Zedekaii Oliver-Jones 8B Le Dernier Atrocity, Dead and Bloated, Chronic
102 Sam Doyle 8B Steppenwolf, Nine Pinch Nails, Wedgie Wall
103 Hayato Furusugi 8B The Ace, Merlin's Beard, Keen Roof - Nachos Start
104 Jacob Handyside 8B Riders on the Storm, Charity Bouldern, The Riverbed
105 Jerry Moffatt 8B Superman, The Ace
106 Jordan Buys 8B Isla de Encanta, High Fidelity
107 Dan Warren 8B Bulbhaul, The Real Keelhaul
108 Alex Gorham 8B Mooiste Meisie, The Riverbed
109 Jonny Argue 8B Fat Lip, Voyager
110 Andy Banks 8B Vice President, Flor de Loto
111 Mikey Cleverdon 8B The Waterman, Crown Worthay
112 Adam Watson 8B Ammagamma, Master of Stone
113 Morgan Preece 8B The Riverbed, The Watchtower Assis
114 Stuart Littlefair 8B Jean-Claude van Lamb, Superman
115 Luke Fletcher 8B Mr. Spantastic, Dead and Bloated
116 Finley Wood 8B WADzilla, Godzilla SDS
117 Alex Oates 8B WADzilla, The Waterman
118 Matt Cousins 8B The Ace, Steppenwolf
119 Chris Matthew 8B The Knowing, Bleu Sacré
120 Jon Freeman 8B Hellraiser, Steppenwolf
121 Brad Bushell 8B Merlin's Beard, Isla de Encanta
122 Leon Joyce 8B Keen Roof - Nachos Start, The Ace
123 Ewan Walker 8B Nine Pinch Nails, Steppenwolf
124 Ben Pestell 8B Fat Lip, The Ace
125 Angus Davidson 8B Chahala SDS, Sanction
126 Callum Amos 8B XTRA, Outliers
127 Kit Mcmean 8B Flip Flopera, Isla de Encanta
128 Louis Leclercq 8B Flow My Tears, Ava's Arrived
129 Sam Pestell 8B Point Ramp, The Ace
130 Wiz Fineron 8B The Riverbed, The Vice
131 Ben West 8B Mooiste Meisie, Steppenwolf
132 Liam Desroy 8B Vecchio Leone, The Riverbed
133 Louis Parkinson 8B The Riverbed, Steppenwolf
134 Paul Bennett 8B Voyager
135 Gareth Parry 8B Isla de Encanta
136 Dave Cowl 8B The Real Keelhaul
137 Greg Chapman 8B Walk Away
138 Mark McQuade 8B Sanction
139 Paul Carruthers 8B Working Class Sit Start
140 Chris Savage 8B Quimera
141 Tom Newberry 8B Serenity
142 Barnaby Ventham 8B Font Blues
143 Dan Smith 8B Middle Trifecta
144 James Thornton 8B The Ace
145 Ricky Bell 8B Gentleman's Arete
146 Michael Bleazard 8B Steppenwolf
147 Tom Randall 8B The Kraken
148 Sam Whittaker 8B Le Dernier Atrocity
149 Ollie Torr 8B Fat Lip
150 Haydn Jones 8B Fat Lip
151 Dom Bridgwood 8B Close of Business
152 Paul Houghoughi 8B You Can Go Now
153 Andy Jackson 8B Bulbhaul
154 Will Buck 8B Rhythm
155 Cailean Harker 8B The Ace
156 Ellis Butler-Barker 8B Occam's Razor
157 Mike Mullins 8B Mooiste Meisie
158 Chris Smith 8B You Can Go Now
159 Joe Walmsley 8B You Can Go Now
160 Sam Mawson 8B Cypher
161 Liam Halsey 8B Cypher
162 Sam Butterworth 8B Bulbhaul
163 Louis Jones 8B You Can Go Now
164 Andy Hutchinson 8B Mr. Lambtastic
165 Calum Coldwell-Story 8B Sideshow
166 Ben Gladstone 8B Lost In The Moment
167 Pete Whittaker 8B The Kraken
168 Aiden Dunne 8B Superman
169 Rowan Page 8B Flip Flopera
170 Marco Giudice 8B Eagle Huntress
171 Jake Mason 8B The Ace
172 Andrew Hammond 8B Hulk
173 Issac Baxter 8B Welcome to Jamrock
174 Henry Henderson 8B Keen Roof - Nachos Start
175 Sam Croft 8B Charity Bouldern
176 Ben Harvey 8B Hydro
177 Kyle Whitehand 8B Combination
178 Harry Leeds 8B Hydro
179 Joe Gardner 8B Isles of Wonder
180 Nathaniel Gjoderum-Hall 8B Antediluvian
181 Matt Helliker 8B Combination
182 Dave Parry 8B Keen Roof - Nachos Start
183 Sebastien Dove 8B Combination
184 Tom Stockton 8B WADzilla
185 Robin Müller 8B Another World SDS
186 Harry Clarke 8B Hydro
187 Thom Davies 8B Amber
188 Rob Hearnden 8B Isla de Encanta
189 Alex Hall 8B Dead and Bloated
190 Spike Fullwood 8B Superman
191 Paddy Buchan 8B Take the Power Back
192 Jack Mckechnie 8B Supersize Me
193 Beidrik Scott 8B Superman
194 Sébastien Dussaut 8B Boogalagga
195 Sam White 8B Sideshow
196 Finn Parry 8B Superman
197 Josh Hummel-Newell 8B Superman
198 Bojan Sretovic 8B Antediluvian
199 Bradley Proctor-Lowe 8B Shakey Graves
200 Severin Domela 8B Riders on the Storm
201 Adam Price 8B Flip Flopera
202 Benedict Schofield 8B Steppenwolf
203 Ian Cooper 8B Η Κρίση Της Κίρκης
204 Dan Knight 8B Mooiste Meisie
205 Andy Brown 8B Superman
206 Si Moore 8B Nuthin' But Sunshine
207 Rory Fowler 8B WADzilla
208 James Garden 8B Jean-Claude van Lamb
209 John Welford 8B Superman