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

245 entries on the list.

Climber Grade Climbs
1 Aidan Roberts 9A Alphane, Spots of Time, Arrival of the Birds
2 Sean Bailey 9A Shaolin, Alphane, Arrival of the Birds
3 Shawn Raboutou 9A Alphane, Megatron
4 Noah Wheeler 9A Return of the Sleepwalker, Shaolin
5 Daniel Woods 9A Return of the Sleepwalker
6 Nathaniel Coleman 9A No One Mourns the Wicked
7 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
8 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
9 Jimmy Webb 8C+ Livin' Large, Creature from the Black Lagoon, Sleepwalker, Ephyra, Off the Wagon Low, Poison the Well, Insomniac
10 Dave Graham 8C+ Creature from the Black Lagoon, Hypnotized Minds, Euclase, Fuck the System, Celestite, Curve Ball
11 Zach Galla 8C+ Grand Illusion, Sleepwalker, The Process, Sosa, Hypnotized Minds
12 Andy Lamb 8C+ Creature from the Black Lagoon, Insomniac, Sleepwalker, Event Horizon
13 Austin Purdy 8C+ Insomniac, Sword of Damocles, Bookkeeping, Distortion
14 Sam Weir 8C+ REM, Fuck the System, Brain Rot, Poison the Well
15 Griffin Whiteside 8C+ Creature from the Black Lagoon, Sleepwalker, Howl at the Moon SDS
16 Carlo Traversi 8C+ Creature from the Black Lagoon, The Dark Side
17 Nathan Williams 8C+ Sleepwalker, Creature from the Black Lagoon
18 Pablo Hammack 8C+ Sleepwalker, Creature from the Black Lagoon
19 Liam Andrews-Bancroft 8C+ Insomniac, Creature from the Black Lagoon
20 Keenan Takahashi 8C+ Insomniac, The Dark Side
21 David Fitzgerald 8C+ Big Z, Last Line of Defense
22 Owen Whaley 8C+ Grand Illusion, Sosa
23 Adam Shahar 8C+ Sleepwalker, The Process
24 Eli Perry 8C+ Grand Illusion, Sleepwalker
25 Paul Robinson 8C+ REM
26 Dylan Barks 8C+ Creature from the Black Lagoon
27 Taylor McNeill 8C+ Moonlight Sonata
28 Colin Duffy 8C+ Bookkeeping
29 Zander Waller 8C+ Sleepwalker
30 Kai Whaley 8C+ Sleepwalker
31 Katie Lamb 8C+ The Dark Side
32 Brian Squire 8C+ Grand Illusion
33 Beckett Hsin 8C+ Creature from the Black Lagoon
34 Luke Gerhardt 8C+ Sleepwalker
35 Ben Hanna 8C+ Grand Illusion
36 Miles Perry 8C+ Grand Illusion
37 Ben Burkhalter 8C Blade Runner, The Game, Echalo, Railway, Paint it Black, Southern Drawl
38 Daniel Beall 8C Terremer, Rising From the Shadows, The Enigma Variation, The Wheel of Milk, The Outer Gates
39 Tristan Chen 8C Paint it Black, Dreamtime, Pegasus, Desperanza
40 Nick Bradley 8C Paint it Black, Delirium, The Game, Railway
41 Nicholas Milburn 8C Southern Drawl, Paint it Black, The Game
42 Austin Hoyt 8C Monkey Wedding, The Big Bad Wolf, Lucid Dreaming
43 Facundo Langbehn 8C The Nest, Alma
44 Everett Sloane 8C Variant, Traffic
45 Zach Wilson 8C Sound of Violence, Pegasus
46 Ethan Pringle 8C The Outer Limits, The Nest
47 Jake Scharfman 8C G-Master, Chicken Nuggets
48 Bruce Zou 8C The Game, Pegasus
49 Bryce Viola 8C The Youngster's Roof, King Condor
50 Chris Sharma 8C Witness the Fitness
51 Shawn Diamond 8C Le Dernier Fléau
52 Tyler Landman 8C Satan i Helvete Assis (pre-December 2013)
53 Jon Cardwell 8C The Game
54 Chris Schulte 8C The Big Island
55 Ian Dory 8C Paint it Black
56 Sam Davis 8C Desperanza
57 Ashima Shiraishi 8C Horizon
58 Daniel Fong 8C Paint it Black
59 Matty Hong 8C Dreamtime
60 Tanner Bauer 8C Traffic
61 John Brock 8C The Nest
62 Jon Glassberg 8C The Nest
63 John Cohee 8C Ebony and Ivory
64 Will Anglin 8C Variant
65 Eric Jerome 8C Forever Endeavor
66 Brooke Raboutou 8C Box Therapy
67 Andre Branchizio 8C Paint it Black
68 Paul Nadler 8C Monkey Wedding
69 Wes Walker 8C Ego Death
70 Palmer Larsen 8C The Nest
71 Samuel Hsin 8C Paint it Black
72 Austin Geiman 8C Defying Gravity
73 Michaela Kiersch 8C Dreamtime
74 Ray Hansen 8C Sound of Violence
75 Elijah Kiser 8C That Hideous Strength
76 Ben Blackmore 8C Paint it Black
77 Isaac Dunk 8C Trap King
78 Dom Speranza 8C G-Master
79 Danny Popowski 8C The Singularity
80 Ben Kim 8C Lucid Dreaming
81 Sean Houchins-McCallum 8C Echalo
82 Isabelle Faus 8B+ Amandla, Memory is Parallax, Sinawav, Crème de la Crumb SDS, Emasculator, Shadow Walker, Spidey, Mirta, The Grey
83 Alex Puccio 8B+ Jade, New Base Line, The Penrose Step, Super Low Chimichanga Right, Reverse Logic, Hailstorm, Tigris SDS
84 Benn Wheeler 8B+ Ghost Circles, Stockholm Syndome, The Wheel of Wolvo, Vulpine, The Phoenix, Crash Out, Power of Now
85 Sam Struthers 8B+ The Wheel of Rabbits, Andromeda, Memory is Parallax, Gecko Assis, Dark Side of the Compass, Direct North
86 Jack Martinus 8B+ Cosmogram, Echale, The Traphouse, Mécanique Élémentaire, The Traphouse
87 Jesse Grupper 8B+ Starstruck, Esperanza, Warpath, No Peace, The Never Ending Story (Part 1+2)
88 James Litz 8B+ Esperanza, Dreamtime (pre break), Warpath, Insurgency
89 Phil Schaal 8B+ Jade, Amandla, Echale, Midnight Express
90 Ben Herrington 8B+ The Penrose Step, The Reckoning, The Holy Hand Grenade, The Book Club
91 Brian Nugent 8B+ Mécanique Élémentaire, The Penrose Step, Get Railed, Kintsugi
92 Jonah Kreitzberg 8B+ Esperanza, Reverse Cowgirl, Neon Desert, Echale
93 Sam Rothstein 8B+ Yellow Cake, Cosmogram, Andromeda, Fallen Angel
94 Joel Unema 8B+ Shelob, Doublecross, Angmar, Polyphemus
95 Julian Bresler 8B+ A Man Escaped, Echale, New Base Line, The Never Ending Story (Part 1+2)
96 Caleb Franchere 8B+ Hoop Dance, 9 Lives, Esperanza, The Choir
97 Milo Timberlake 8B+ Trieste, Cosmic Artifact, Motorhead, Menage a Trois
98 Brion Voges 8B+ Lost in the Hood, Wood Grain Grippin', Esperanza
99 Michael O'Rourke 8B+ Mirror Reality, Warrior Up, The Phoenix
100 Matt Gentile 8B+ Angmar, Throwback, Doublecross
101 Max Zolotukhin 8B+ Direct North, The Mandala SDS, No Peace Prize
102 Chase Martinez 8B+ Echale, Midnight Express, The Penrose Step
103 Kiernan Tong 8B+ Direct North, Insurgency, Zef
104 B.J. Tilden 8B+ Esperanza, Zef, Neon Desert
105 Matt Nunes 8B+ Uncertainty, Bone Saw, Severed Arm
106 Andrew Nimmer 8B+ Esperanza, Direct North, Amandla
107 Jack Felix 8B+ Jumpman, The Mantra, Echale
108 Vance Stanfield 8B+ Aracnobatics, Murder Mitten, White Pony
109 Tim Kang 8B+ Borrowed Time, Trieste, Goldfish Trombone
110 Tyre Taft 8B+ Brass Knuckles, Severed Arm, Bone Saw
111 Cyrus Johnston 8B+ Yellow Cake, Andromeda, Cosmogram
112 Timmy Fairfield 8B+ The Saadhu, Throwback
113 Kevin Jorgeson 8B+ Ode to the Modern Man, The Mandala SDS
114 Josh Haynes 8B+ Esperanza, Goldfish Trombone
115 Mark Heal 8B+ Amandla, New Base Line
116 Alex Waterhouse 8B+ New Base Line, The Never Ending Story (Part 1+2)
117 Charlie Barron 8B+ Shadow Walker, Predator Pounce Low
118 Simon Hibbeler 8B+ Echale, Be Kinda Soft
119 Nate Draughn 8B+ Bone Saw, Show Your Scars
120 Cody Fults 8B+ Trieste, Squoze
121 Isaac Leff 8B+ Nuclear Base, Flashing Lights
122 Dalton Bunker 8B+ Show Your Scars, Hailstorm
123 Jeramie Claussen 8B+ Kenny Loggins, Dark Waters Low
124 Josh Muehring 8B+ Show Your Scars, Zef
125 Duke Lettieri 8B+ Jade, Trieste
126 Ethan Freudenheim 8B+ Show Your Scars, Kenny Loggins
127 Siara Fabbri 8B+ New Base Line, Compass North
128 Brett Walker 8B+ Trieste, Direct North
129 Jess Walker 8B+ Warrior Up, Echale
130 Conor Wellman 8B+ The Multiverse, The Phoenix
131 Cozmo Rothfork 8B+ The Saadhu, Hoop Dance
132 Logan Tetu 8B+ Echale, Muscle Car
133 Shunei Asao 8B+ Squoze, Line of Fire
134 Wesley White 8B+ Dark Side of the Compass, Cosmogram
135 Melina Costanza 8B+ Direct North, The Mantra
136 Erik Cmiel 8B+ Breaking the Wheel, Zef
137 Kevin Celommi 8B+ Avalanche, Mind Shift
138 Thomas Betterton 8B+ When Life Gives You Lemons Low, Warrior Up
139 Kyle Howard 8B+ Big Kat, The French Connection
140 Kyle Hilton 8B+ Jade, Mirror Reality
141 Sam Enright 8B+ No Peace Prize, Show Your Scars
142 Itai Axelrad 8B+ Jade, Ode to the Modern Man
143 Sam Stewart 8B+ Hello Kitty SDS, Dark Side of the Compass
144 Vincent Lee 8B+ Fatal Attraction, Trieste
145 Tanner Mack 8B+ Trieste, Goldfish Trombone
146 Ely Wilde 8B+ Esperanza
147 Nick Duttle 8B+ Esperanza
148 Seth Allred 8B+ Midnight Express
149 Johnny Goicoechea 8B+ The Mandala SDS
150 Brian Hedrick 8B+ The Mandala SDS
151 Jason Kehl 8B+ Seventh Circle
152 Mirko Caballero 8B+ Golden Shadow
153 Jim Merli 8B+ L'Étoile Du Nord
154 Giovanni Traversi 8B+ Direct North
155 Jonathan Siegrist 8B+ Jade
156 Liam Vance 8B+ The Mandala SDS
157 Hunter Damiani 8B+ Midnight Express
158 Ryan Sewell 8B+ Echale
159 Mike McCracken 8B+ Nuclear Base
160 Eric Breed 8B+ The Holy Hand Grenade
161 Zach Arenberg 8B+ Muscle Car
162 Brian Antheunisse 8B+ Neon Desert
163 Sander Pick 8B+ Direct North
164 Matt Desantis 8B+ Show Your Scars
165 Gordon Anderson 8B+ Dicktopia
166 Chris Deuto 8B+ Shadow Walker
167 Peter Torphy 8B+ A Man Escaped
168 Dan Andrei 8B+ When Life Gives You Lemons Low
169 Clay Gordon 8B+ Trieste
170 Davis Stewart 8B+ Brass Knuckles
171 Chad Greedy 8B+ Sinawav
172 Vincent Mollicone 8B+ Judge Judy
173 Jake Plasco 8B+ Perpetual Motion
174 Mike McClure 8B+ Hypothetical
175 Danny Seo 8B+ Echo Chamber
176 Manny Quintana 8B+ North Ridge
177 Kelly Birch 8B+ Muscle Car
178 Aidan Callan 8B+ There and Back Again
179 Taylor Kiley 8B+ Hypothetical
180 Conrad Piper-Ruth 8B+ Hypothetical
181 Matt Willis 8B+ Breaking the Wheel
182 Sam Dospoy 8B+ Bone Saw
183 Cameron Hörst 8B+ Breaking the Wheel
184 Josh Levin 8B+ The Never Ending Story (Part 1+2)
185 Ilias Hosain 8B+ Muscle Car
186 Caleb Robinson 8B+ Zef
187 Colin Wills 8B+ The Mandala SDS
188 Graham Owens 8B+ Vulpine
189 Jordan Shepard 8B+ Birch Problem
190 Courtney Arnold 8B+ Birch Problem
191 Luke Vincent 8B+ The Other Side of Infinity
192 Dawson Bauer 8B+ Sinawav
193 Chris Terry 8B+ The Penrose Step
194 GP Salvo 8B+ Blunt Sit
195 Vail Everett 8B+ Judge Judy
196 Dylan Enriquez 8B+ Sit Propera
197 Anderson Bouton 8B+ Motorhead
198 Adlai Marquez 8B+ Match Made in Heaven
199 Erik Libbe 8B+ Direct North
200 Sierra Blaire-Coyle 8B+ Birch Problem
201 Jeremy Holmes 8B+ Fatal Attraction
202 Andrew Moore 8B+ Direct North
203 Casey Webb 8B+ Apotheosis
204 Jonny Hork 8B+ Sinawav
205 Nick Ranelli 8B+ Avalanche
206 Liam Foster 8B+ Echo Chamber
207 Bobby Taft-Pittman 8B+ Dicktopia
208 Eric Wu 8B+ Goldfish Trombone
209 Zach Lerner 8B+ Memory is Parallax
210 Porter Geddes 8B+ Show Your Scars
211 Matt Bosley 8B+ Perpetual Motion
212 Dalen Gray 8B+ Third Eye Awakening
213 Scotty Grayson 8B+ Skincifer
214 Aj Flynn 8B+ Sailor's Delight
215 Oliver Kuang 8B+ Hoop Dance
216 Marc Bourguignon 8B+ The Reckoning
217 Andrew Rothner 8B+ Aslan
218 Chris Watts 8B+ An Empty Smile
219 Alex Mcintyre 8B+ Epidote Extension (Left)
220 Solomon Barth 8B+ The Never Ending Story (Part 1+2)
221 Alex Biale 8B+ Mind to Motion
222 Quinn Spadafora 8B+ Echale
223 Joe Meiners 8B+ Amandla
224 Kirby Mccoy 8B+ Show Your Scars
225 Jake Croft 8B+ The Holy Hand Grenade
226 Mike Pacaro 8B+ Kook Slams Extension
227 Pete Lowe 8B+ Show Your Scars
228 Fitz Allen 8B+ Muscle Car
229 Max Smerek 8B+ Echale
230 Stefan Fellner 8B+ Zef
231 Rob D'Anastasio 8B+ Echale
232 Urs Moosmuller 8B+ Direct North
233 Chris Chen 8B+ Echale
234 Jake Kim 8B+ Echale
235 Rowland Chen 8B+ Echale
236 Roman Yalowitz 8B+ Momentum
237 Randy Puro 8B+ Junebug (Pre-Break)
238 Ben Spannuth 8B+ Esperanza
239 Cole Bradburn 8B+ Speed of Sound
240 Mike Foley 8B+ The Reckoning
241 Luke Parady 8B+ Midnight Express
242 Adam Taylor 8B+ Esperanza
243 Sam Wolff 8B+ The Penrose Step
244 Isaac Caldiero 8B+ Bling
245 Rocco Bochichio 8B+ New Base Line