In Switzerland, sledding is a national pastime

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In Switzerland, sledding is a national pastime
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“It’s about family and friends enjoying nature together,” says one historian. “You meet to socialize on the hill.”

. A mountain pass during warmer months, the route is closed to vehicular traffic in the winter.

“It’s like riding a horse,” he says, putting the sled’s rope “reins” in my hands as I sit on the yard-long sled. “When you want to go right, pull right.” Widoner also shows me how to position my feet straight ahead, the better to use them—ack!—to brake. At the bottom of the run in Bergün, there’s a steepled 15th-century medieval church, locals pulling groceries atop sleds, and a two-seater chairlift to the top of the town’s more challenging sled run,Darlux-Bergün gets a “moderate” ranking from SwitzerlandMobility. But icy conditions make it feel challenging, as my sled veers into runaway ramps on tight corners.

“When you go up the chairlift, you hear all these screeches below you,” says Nicholas Houghton, a British artist I met in the dining room of the

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