Strong British Male Trad Climbers

Men in the UK who have trad climbed E9 or harder.

This list aims to be definitive in terms of the people included but does not attempt to enumerate every relevant ascent.

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106 entries on the list.

Climber Grade Climbs
1 Bentley Beetham D Corvus
2 James Pearson E12 Bon Voyage
3 Dave MacLeod E11 Rhapsody, Lexicon
4 Steve McClure E11 Rhapsody, Lexicon
5 Franco Cookson E11 Nothing Lasts, Immortal
6 Mathew Wright E11 Lexicon, Rhapsody
7 Neil Gresham E11 Lexicon
8 Pete Whittaker E11 Crown Royale
9 Tom Randall E10 Century Crack, The Pura Pura, The Great Rift, Autobahn
10 Dave Birkett E10 To Hell and Back, Die by the Drop
11 Neil Mawson E10 Parthian Shot, Choronzon
12 Robbie Phillips E10 What we do in the Shadows, Le Voyage
13 Neil Bentley E10 Equilibrium
14 John Arran E10 Doctor Dolittle
15 Mark Edwards E10 The Human Skewer Direct
16 Julian Lines E10 Hold Fast, Hold True
17 Ben Bransby E10 Parthian Shot
18 Ryan Pasquill E10 Sleepy Hollow
19 Iain Small E10 Hold Fast, Hold True
20 Craig Matheson E10 Hard Cheese
21 Gordon Lennox E10 Coldfinger
22 Tom Pearce E10 The Human Skewer Direct
23 James McHaffie E10 Yma O Hyd
24 Angus Kille E9 Gribin Wall Climb, Trauma, Indian Face, Mission Impossible, Muy Caliente!, The Walk of Life, Crac Yr Meistri, The Hallucinogen Wall, Patresence, Rare Lichen
25 Nathan Lee E9 Appointment with Death, Unknown Stones, Meshuga, The Zone, Rare Lichen, Divided Years, The Final Round, Gribin Wall Climb
26 Jim Pope E9 Meshuga, Appointment with Death, Prisoners of the Sun, Olwen, The Final Round, The Zone, Polar Front
27 Nick Dixon E9 Face Mecca, Indian Face, Gribin Wall Climb, Rare Lichen, A Thousand Setting Suns, Once Upon a Time in the Southwest
28 John Dunne E9 Parthian Shot (Pre 2011 Break), Divided Years, The Big Issue, Gribin Wall Climb, Widdop Wall, Breathless
29 Jordan Buys E9 French Duke, Widdop Wall, Chicama, Muy Caliente!, Talbot Horizon, The Final Round
30 Charlie Woodburn E9 Harder Faster, The Walk of Life, Once Upon a Time in the Southwest, Something's Burning, Rare Lichen
31 Leo Houlding E9 Rare Lichen, Savage Horse, Trauma, The Prophet
32 Tim Emmett E9 Meshuga, Muy Caliente!, The Path, Chicama
33 Ben Heason E9 Oz Bound, Lonely Heart, Muy Caliente!, Meshuga
34 Ali Kennedy E9 Muy Caliente!, Something's Burning, The Big Issue, The Walk of Life
35 Alex Moore E9 The Dark Side, Longhope Route Direct, Rare Lichen, The Groove
36 James Taylor E9 Prisoners of the Sun, Mission Impossible, Olwen, Rare Lichen
37 Seb Grieve E9 Knockin' on Heaven's Door, Parthian Shot (Pre 2011 Break), Meshuga
38 Ricky Bell E9 Divided Years, The Rathlin Effect, Long Runs the Fox
39 Neil Kershaw E9 Knockin' on Heaven's Door, Meshuga, Dynamics of Change
40 Dan Varian E9 The Dark Side, Moonrise Kingdom, Transcendence
41 Calum Muskett E9 Indian Face, The Walk of Life, Rare Lichen
42 Matt Helliker E9 The Big Issue, Anapanasati, Race
43 Morus Sanderson E9 Gribin Wall Climb, Indian Face, Rare Lichen
44 Johnny Dawes E9 Indian Face, Face Mecca
45 Robin Barker E9 Captain Invincible, Transcendence
46 Adrian Berry E9 Blind Vision, The Big Issue
47 Adam Hocking E9 Return of the King, Blood Eagle
48 Oli Grounsell E9 The Zone, Mission Impossible
49 Ethan Walker E9 Meshuga, The Zone
50 Ed Booth E9 Rare Lichen, Gribin Wall Climb
51 Alexis Perry E9 Question Mark, Exclamation Mark
52 Patrick Hill E9 Meshuga, The Final Round
53 Niall McNair E9 Achemine, The Dark Side
54 Dave Warburton E9 Heart And Soul, Divine Moments of Truth
55 Alex Hall E9 Trauma, Mission Impossible
56 Ed Morris E9 Muy Caliente!, Something's Burning
57 Andy Pollitt E9 Knockin' on Heaven's Door
58 Ron Fawcett E9 Knockin' on Heaven's Door
59 Sean Myles E9 Captain Invincible
60 Malcolm Smith E9 Transcendence
61 Richie Patterson E9 Knockin' on Heaven's Door
62 Neil Carson E9 Mission Impossible
63 Ben Tetler E9 Knockin' on Heaven's Door
64 Tom de Gay E9 Meshuga
65 Mike Weeks E9 Knockin' on Heaven's Door
66 Chris Cubitt E9 The Zone
67 Andy Earl E9 The Dark Side
68 Sam Whittaker E9 Appointment with Death
69 Jack Geldard E9 Spinal Crack
70 Pete Robins E9 Spinal Crack
71 Neil Dickson E9 Quetzalcoatl
72 Tom Briggs E9 Parthian Shot (Pre 2011 Break)
73 Aly Robertson E9 Knockin' on Heaven's Door
74 Eddie Barbour E9 Divided Years
75 Stevie Haston E9 Greenspit
76 Miles Gibson E9 Dangermouse
77 Gareth Parry E9 The Big Issue
78 Adam Watson E9 Harder Faster
79 George Ulrich E9 Indian Face
80 Dave Mason E9 Meshuga
81 Jacob Cook E9 The Lizard King
82 Bob Hickish E9 Meshuga
83 Ed Hamer E9 Meshuga
84 Tim Rankin E9 Perfect Vacuum
85 Tom Livingstone E9 Rare Lichen
86 John McCune E9 Divided Years
87 Si Moore E9 Divided Years
88 Mark Rankine E9 Divine Moments of Truth
89 Rory Cummins E9 Divided Years
90 Tim Blake E9 The Dark Side
91 Nic Duboust E9 Meshuga
92 Wojciech Szymanowicz E9 Rewind
93 Adam Bowman E9 The Final Round
94 Andy Marshall E9 The Inevitable End
95 James Squire E9 Commitment Issues
96 Rob Sutton E9 Achemine
97 Ian Cooper E9 Once Upon a Time in the Southwest
98 Joseph Mullett E9 The Zone
99 Sam Radcliffe E9 The Final Round
100 Ramon Marin E9 The Final Round
101 Sam Ley E9 Achemine
102 Ken Palmer E9 Question Mark
103 Dan Honeyman E9 Knockin' on Heaven's Door
104 Sam Hamer E9 Meshuga
105 Neil Furniss E9 Meshuga
106 Nic Sellars E9 Parthian Shot (Pre 2011 Break)