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 earlier this month.

grabbing a toboggan and whooshing down the Eiger Run from Eiger Glacier to Kleine Scheidegg – no ski school or fancy gear required. The region’s big three, Eiger, Monch and Jungfrau ...

Also spectacular are the 4.5km-long Fox Run, which follows the Lauberhorn piste, and the nighttime Jungfrau Eiger run, which descends a 3.5km-long floodlit trail to Brandegg. You’ll need to buy ...