Strong American Boulderers

The best American boulderers.

This list aims to list any American 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.

Big thanks to eric.jerome for compiling and maintaining this list.

Got any corrections? Send them to corrections@climbing-history.org

225 entries on the list.

Climber Grade Climbs
1 Shawn Raboutou 9A Megatron, Alphane
2 Sean Bailey 9A Shaolin, Alphane
3 Noah Wheeler 9A Return of the Sleepwalker, Shaolin
4 Daniel Woods 9A Return of the Sleepwalker
5 Nathaniel Coleman 9A No One Mourns the Wicked
6 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
7 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
8 Jimmy Webb 8C+ Creature from the Black Lagoon, Sleepwalker, Ephyra, Off the Wagon Low, Poison the Well, Insomniac
9 Dave Graham 8C+ Creature from the Black Lagoon, Hypnotized Minds, Euclase, Fuck the System, Celestite
10 Andy Lamb 8C+ Creature from the Black Lagoon, Insomniac, Sleepwalker, Event Horizon
11 Zach Galla 8C+ Grand Illusion, Sleepwalker, The Process, Sosa
12 Griffin Whiteside 8C+ Creature from the Black Lagoon, Sleepwalker, Howl at the Moon SDS
13 Austin Purdy 8C+ Insomniac, Sword of Damocles, Bookkeeping
14 Carlo Traversi 8C+ Creature from the Black Lagoon, The Dark Side
15 Nathan Williams 8C+ Sleepwalker, Creature from the Black Lagoon
16 Pablo Hammack 8C+ Sleepwalker, Creature from the Black Lagoon
17 Sam Weir 8C+ REM, Fuck the System
18 Adam Shahar 8C+ Sleepwalker, The Process
19 Paul Robinson 8C+ REM
20 Dylan Barks 8C+ Creature from the Black Lagoon
21 Taylor McNeill 8C+ Moonlight Sonata
22 Colin Duffy 8C+ Bookkeeping
23 Liam Andrews-Bancroft 8C+ Insomniac
24 Keenan Takahashi 8C+ Insomniac
25 Zander Waller 8C+ Sleepwalker
26 Kai Whaley 8C+ Sleepwalker
27 Owen Whaley 8C+ Grand Illusion
28 Ben Burkhalter 8C Blade Runner, The Game, Echalo, Railway, Paint it Black, Southern Drawl
29 Nick Bradley 8C Paint it Black, Delirium, The Game, Railway
30 Nicholas Milburn 8C Southern Drawl, Paint it Black, The Game
31 Tristan Chen 8C Dreamtime, Pegasus, Desperanza
32 Katie Lamb 8C Box Therapy, Equanimity, Fallen Angel
33 Austin Hoyt 8C Monkey Wedding, The Big Bad Wolf, Lucid Dreaming
34 Brian Squire 8C Sound of Violence, Pegasus, Paint it Black
35 Daniel Beall 8C Terremer, The Outer Gates
36 Everett Sloane 8C Variant, Traffic
37 Zach Wilson 8C Sound of Violence, Pegasus
38 Ethan Pringle 8C The Outer Limits, The Nest
39 Eli Perry 8C Sound of Violence, Pegasus
40 Chris Sharma 8C Witness the Fitness
41 Shawn Diamond 8C Le Dernier Fléau
42 Jon Cardwell 8C The Game
43 Christopher Schulte 8C The Big Island
44 Sam Davis 8C Desperanza
45 Ashima Shiraishi 8C Horizon
46 Daniel Fong 8C Paint it Black
47 Matty Hong 8C Dreamtime
48 Tanner Bauer 8C Traffic
49 Jon Glassberg 8C The Nest
50 John Cohee 8C Ebony and Ivory
51 Eric Jerome 8C Forever Endeavor
52 Brooke Raboutou 8C Box Therapy
53 Andre Branchizio 8C Paint it Black
54 Beckett Hsin 8C The Game
55 Palmer Larsen 8C The Nest
56 Samuel Hsin 8C Paint it Black
57 Austin Geiman 8C Defying Gravity
58 Luke Gerhardt 8C Pegasus
59 Michaela Kiersch 8C Dreamtime
60 Ben Blackmore 8C Paint it Black
61 Isaac Dunk 8C Trap King
62 Ian Dory 8C Paint it Black
63 Will Anglin 8C Variant
64 Elijah Kiser 8C That Hideous Strength
65 John Brock 8C The Nest
66 Jake Scharfman 8C G-Master
67 Wes Walker 8C Ego Death
68 Ray Hansen 8C Sound of Violence
69 Miles Perry 8C Sound of Violence
70 Isabelle Faus 8B+ Amandla, Memory is Parallax, Sinawav, Crème de la Crumb SDS, Emasculator, Shadow Walker, Spidey, Mirta, The Grey
71 Alex Puccio 8B+ Jade, New Base Line, The Penrose Step, Super Low Chimichanga Right, Reverse Logic, Hailstorm, Tigris SDS
72 Sam Struthers 8B+ The Wheel of Rabbits, Andromeda, Memory is Parallax, Gecko Assis, Dark Side of the Compass, Direct North
73 Benn Wheeler 8B+ The Wheel of Wolvo, Vulpine, The Phoenix, Moonstruck, Stockholm Syndome, Ghost Circles
74 James Litz 8B+ Esperanza, Dreamtime (pre break), Warpath, Insurgency
75 Phil Schaal 8B+ Jade, Amandla, Echale, Midnight Express
76 Bryce Viola 8B+ Nuclear Base, Kintsugi, Mind to Motion, Book of Bitter Aspects Low
77 Jonah Kreitzberg 8B+ Esperanza, Reverse Cowgirl, Neon Desert, Echale
78 Sam Rothstein 8B+ Yellow Cake, Cosmogram, Andromeda, Fallen Angel
79 Joel Unema 8B+ Shelob, Doublecross, Angmar, Polyphemus
80 Milo Timberlake 8B+ Trieste, Cosmic Artifact, Motorhead, Menage a Trois
81 Jesse Grupper 8B+ Starstruck, Esperanza, The Never Ending Story (Part 1+2), Moonstruck
82 Brion Voges 8B+ Lost in the Hood, Wood Grain Grippin', Esperanza
83 Michael O'Rourke 8B+ Mirror Reality, Warrior Up, The Phoenix
84 Matt Gentile 8B+ Angmar, Throwback, Doublecross
85 Max Zolotukhin 8B+ Direct North, The Mandala SDS, No Peace Prize
86 Ben Herrington 8B+ The Penrose Step, The Holy Hand Grenade, The Book Club
87 Simon Hibbeler 8B+ Echale, Be Kinda Soft, Be Kind
88 Chase Martinez 8B+ Echale, Midnight Express, The Penrose Step
89 Kiernan Tong 8B+ Direct North, Insurgency, Zef
90 B.J. Tilden 8B+ Esperanza, Zef, Neon Desert
91 Matt Nunes 8B+ Uncertainty, Bone Saw, Severed Arm
92 Caleb Franchere 8B+ Hoop Dance, 9 Lives, Esperanza
93 Jack Felix 8B+ Jumpman, The Mantra, Echale
94 Cyrus Johnston 8B+ Cosmogram, Andromeda, Yellow Cake
95 Tyre Taft 8B+ Severed Arm, Bone Saw, Brass Knuckles
96 Kevin Jorgeson 8B+ Ode to the Modern Man, The Mandala SDS
97 Mark Heal 8B+ Amandla, New Base Line
98 Charlie Barron 8B+ Shadow Walker, Predator Pounce Low
99 Nate Draughn 8B+ Bone Saw, Show Your Scars
100 Cody Fults 8B+ Trieste, Squoze
101 Isaac Leff 8B+ Nuclear Base, Flashing Lights
102 Dalton Bunker 8B+ Show Your Scars, Hailstorm
103 Jeramie Claussen 8B+ Kenny Loggins, Dark Waters Low
104 Josh Muehring 8B+ Show Your Scars, Zef
105 Duke Lettieri 8B+ Jade, Trieste
106 Jack Martinus 8B+ Cosmogram, Echale
107 Ethan Freudenheim 8B+ Show Your Scars, Kenny Loggins
108 Siara Fabbri 8B+ New Base Line, Compass North
109 Andrew Nimmer 8B+ Esperanza, Direct North
110 Brett Walker 8B+ Trieste, Direct North
111 Jess Walker 8B+ Warrior Up, Echale
112 Cozmo Rothfork 8B+ The Saadhu, Hoop Dance
113 Logan Tetu 8B+ Echale, Muscle Car
114 Wesley White 8B+ Dark Side of the Compass, Cosmogram
115 Graham Owens 8B+ Vulpine, Moonstruck
116 Vincent Lee 8B+ Trieste, Fatal Attraction
117 Tanner Mack 8B+ Trieste, Goldfish Trombone
118 Brian Nugent 8B+ Get Railed, Kintsugi
119 Kyle Howard 8B+ Big Kat, The French Connection
120 Itai Axelrad 8B+ Ode to the Modern Man, Jade
121 Thomas Betterton 8B+ Warrior Up, When Life Gives You Lemons Low
122 Paul Nadler 8B+ The Penrose Step, Gecko Assis
123 Conor Wellman 8B+ The Phoenix, The Multiverse
124 Kyle Hilton 8B+ Mirror Reality, Jade
125 Sam Enright 8B+ Show Your Scars, No Peace Prize
126 Ely Wilde 8B+ Esperanza
127 Josh Haynes 8B+ Esperanza
128 Nick Duttle 8B+ Esperanza
129 Seth Allred 8B+ Midnight Express
130 Johnny Goicoechea 8B+ The Mandala SDS
131 Brian Hedrick 8B+ The Mandala SDS
132 Jason Kehl 8B+ Seventh Circle
133 Jim Merli 8B+ L'Étoile Du Nord
134 Giovanni Traversi 8B+ Direct North
135 Jonathan Siegrist 8B+ Jade
136 Liam Vance 8B+ The Mandala SDS
137 Hunter Damiani 8B+ Midnight Express
138 Ryan Sewell 8B+ Echale
139 Mike McCracken 8B+ Nuclear Base
140 Ben Hanna 8B+ The Saadhu
141 Eric Breed 8B+ The Holy Hand Grenade
142 Zach Arenberg 8B+ Muscle Car
143 Brian Antheunisse 8B+ Neon Desert
144 Sander Pick 8B+ Direct North
145 Matt Desantis 8B+ Show Your Scars
146 Gordon Anderson 8B+ Dicktopia
147 Chris Deuto 8B+ Shadow Walker
148 Peter Torphy 8B+ A Man Escaped
149 Dan Andrei 8B+ When Life Gives You Lemons Low
150 Clay Gordon 8B+ Trieste
151 Davis Stewart 8B+ Brass Knuckles
152 Chad Greedy 8B+ Sinawav
153 Julian Bresler 8B+ A Man Escaped
154 Vincent Mollicone 8B+ Judge Judy
155 Jake Plasco 8B+ Perpetual Motion
156 Mike McClure 8B+ Hypothetical
157 Danny Seo 8B+ Echo Chamber
158 Manny Quintana 8B+ North Ridge
159 Kelly Birch 8B+ Muscle Car
160 Aidan Callan 8B+ There and Back Again
161 Taylor Kiley 8B+ Hypothetical
162 Conrad Piper-Ruth 8B+ Hypothetical
163 Matt Willis 8B+ Breaking the Wheel
164 Ben Kim 8B+ Direct North
165 Shunei Asao 8B+ Squoze
166 Sam Dospoy 8B+ Bone Saw
167 Cameron Hörst 8B+ Breaking the Wheel
168 Josh Levin 8B+ The Never Ending Story (Part 1+2)
169 Vance Stanfield 8B+ Aracnobatics
170 Ilias Hosain 8B+ Muscle Car
171 Caleb Robinson 8B+ Zef
172 Melina Costanza 8B+ Direct North
173 Colin Wills 8B+ The Mandala SDS
174 Luke Vincent 8B+ The Other Side of Infinity
175 Dawson Bauer 8B+ Sinawav
176 Aj Flynn 8B+ Sailor's Delight
177 Alex Mcintyre 8B+ Epidote Extension (Left)
178 Solomon Barth 8B+ The Never Ending Story (Part 1+2)
179 Alex Biale 8B+ Mind to Motion
180 Dalen Gray 8B+ Third Eye Awakening
181 Joe Meiners 8B+ Amandla
182 Eric Wu 8B+ Goldfish Trombone
183 Kirby Mccoy 8B+ Show Your Scars
184 Pete Lowe 8B+ Show Your Scars
185 Fitz Allen 8B+ Muscle Car
186 Adlai Marquez 8B+ Match Made in Heaven
187 Isaac Caldiero 8B+ Bling
188 Rocco Bochichio 8B+ New Base Line
189 Max Smerek 8B+ Echale
190 Stefan Fellner 8B+ Zef
191 Rob D'Anastasio 8B+ Echale
192 Chris Chen 8B+ Echale
193 Jake Kim 8B+ Echale
194 Rowland Chen 8B+ Echale
195 Randy Puro 8B+ Junebug (Pre-Break)
196 Ben Spannuth 8B+ Esperanza
197 Bobby Taft-Pittman 8B+ Dicktopia
198 Cole Bradburn 8B+ Speed of Sound
199 Zach Lerner 8B+ Memory is Parallax
200 Danny Popowski 8B+ Show Your Scars
201 Porter Geddes 8B+ Show Your Scars
202 Chris Marley 8B+ Moonstruck
203 Matt Bosley 8B+ Perpetual Motion
204 Sam Wolff 8B+ The Penrose Step
205 Scotty Grayson 8B+ Skincifer
206 Adam Taylor 8B+ Esperanza
207 Gp Salvo 8B+ Blunt Sit
208 Sam Stewart 8B+ Hello Kitty SDS
209 Luke Parady 8B+ Midnight Express
210 Chris Watts 8B+ An Empty Smile
211 Mike Foley 8B+ The Reckoning
212 Roman Yalowitz 8B+ Momentum
213 Tim Kang 8B+ Goldfish Trombone
214 Quinn Spadafora 8B+ Echale
215 Timmy Fairfield 8B+ Throwback
216 Jake Croft 8B+ The Holy Hand Grenade
217 Mike Pacaro 8B+ Kook Slams Extension
218 Jordan Shepard 8B+ Birch Problem
219 Kevin Celomni 8B+ Mind Shift
220 Sean Houchins-McCallum 8B+ Echale
221 Urs Moosmuller 8B+ Direct North
222 Andrew Rothner 8B+ Aslan
223 Chris Terry 8B+ The Penrose Step
224 Marc Bourguignon 8B+ The Reckoning
225 Oliver Kuang 8B+ Hoop Dance