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On the Blouberg Massif, a 1,200-foot quartzite mesa near South Africas’s northern border, a major FA played out: Dog of Thunder, a 13-pitch 5.13 A0 envisioned by the South African Charles “Snort” Edelstein, with assistance from Stewart Middlemiss and the talented all-arounder Clinton Martinengo. Their efforts mark a nearly all-free FA of South Africa’s most difficult big wall, one that Edelstein pegs at possibly 5.13d to do single push, all free.