Stefano Ghisolfi

Stefano Ghisolfi is an Italian professional rock climber, born on 18 February 1993 in Turin, who specializes in competition climbing, sport climbing and bouldering. In competition he takes part in lead, bouldering and speed climbing, lead being his strongest discipline, and he won World Cup stages in lead at Wujiang in 2014 and 2017 and at Xiamen in 2016. As a sport climber he has redpointed routes of grade 9b+ and onsighted routes of 8c. In December 2018 he climbed Perfecto Mundo at Margalef in Spain and became the fourth climber in history to redpoint a route of 9b+. In 2020 he made the second ascent of Change in Flatanger, Norway, the first 9b+ route ever established, and in 2023 he made the first ascent of Excalibur in Arco, Italy, which he proposed at 9b+. He has also solved boulder problems up to 8C+.