Lines first, grades second.
Niccolò Ceria, known as Niky, has been bouldering since he was fourteen. He has since traveled the world repeating classic lines and opening new ones for the next generation, and he is known for an aesthetic approach: the quality of the problem and the movement matter as much as how hard it is.
His repeats include Ephyra in Chironico, an 8C+ that Jimmy Webb climbed first. Niky made the second ascent in November 2020, six years after he first tried it, and followed it a month later with another 8C+, Gioia. He climbed La Révolutionnaire in Fontainebleau in 2022, and in 2023 made the first ascent of Off the Wagon Low, an 8C+.
He has put up new lines across Italy, on a trip through Basilicata and a run of kinglines in Sardinia, and in 2015 made the second ascent of Ben Moon’s Voyager Low Start in Yorkshire. Niky is a member of the Rhino Pro Team.
