A few days ago, I found a pictorial from the Atlantic Magazine, introducing a ski resort I had never heard about, located in Lesotho, the enclaved Kingdom in the middle of South Africa. on the picture below, taken on July 11, all the snow is man-made, but natural snow happens (bottom picture).
The top of the ski hill is about 10,600 feet high and the single, pretty narrow run is 3,300 feet long.
That resort, call Afriski, is perched high in the Maluti Mountains, about 330 miles away from Tiffindell, the other South African resort located on the opposite (south end) of the Kingdom.
If you find the run too narrow, there's always off-piste skiing, but it must be quite challenging and if you're up to it, I recommend that you bring your “rock skis.”
The season runs from early June to early September. Afriski is about 292 miles or 5 hours from Johannesburg or about 300 miles from Durban.
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