The BBC has reported that Ghana’s “the Snow Leopard,” who represented his nation as a ski racer at the Vancouver Olympics, finishing in the top 50, is moving ahead with plans to build Ghana’s first artificial surface snow slope on a 13 acre site in the east of the tropical West African country.
Launching the plans in the country’s capital, Accra, with plans to spend $400,000 (US) on the dry slope with sprinkler system, Mr Nkrumah-Acheampong is currently seeking financial backers for the slope which he hopes will be an Olympic training ground for the team he has already established and provide free skiing for under 16.
“I think I’ve proven myself enough times now that when I say we’re going to do X,Y,Z we deliver X,Y,Z” he said.
Scottish born Mr Nkrumah-Acheampong first learned to ski less than 10 years ago when working in administration at the SNO!zone indoor snow facility at Milton Keynes.
