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In Switzerland, sledding is not for the faint of heart

In Switzerland, sledding is not for the faint of heart



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Jennifer Veilleux didn’t know what she was getting herself into when she agreed to a winter vacation with friends in Grindelwald, Switzerland.

“I got a message from my friend that said, ‘Have you ever thought about going sledding in the Alps?’ ” says the 47-year old geographer and environmental scientist who lives in the Netherlands. “He sent me a link to somebody in a helmet going downhill on a sled, and I thought, ‘Oh, this looks crazy and fun. Let’s do it.’ ”

That’s how Veilleux found herself careening down a nearly two-and-a-half mile (four-kilometer) sledding run at the Grindelwald-First ski area in Switzerland’s Jungfrau region…

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