Southern Africa is not a part of the world one would automatically associate with skiing, but a resort in Lesotho’s Maluti Mountains offers people in the region the opportunity to enjoy the winter sport.
The country’s high elevation and mountainous terrain combine to make it the coldest country on the continent, with temperatures in the highlands typically plunging to minus 8 degrees Celsius between June and August.
And at 3,200m above sea-level, Afriski’s slopes gives visitors the possibility of skiing, snowboarding, or taking part in other winter activities that they would otherwise have to travel to Europe or elsewhere to do.
"When you think of the African continent, you don't think about snow, you think about like the sun and...the Sahara,” said Thato Ramaphoko, a first-timer at the resort from Pretoria in South Africa.
"But like you can go to all that and also come here and it snows at the same time. It's just mind blowing,” he said.
