With daily lift tickets at some major US ski resorts costing $250 for an adult pass, even more at some areas, Switzerland’s Jungfrau Region offers a far more affordable alternative at $85.

Wengen shares a ski area with Grindelwald ... in Andermatt when cover in the Valais region – Switzerland’s main concentration of major resorts – is mediocre. Although it does have several ...

Sitting on a sunny shelf, Wengen shares a ski area with Grindelwald ... These peaks can also be reached from Grindelwald in the next valley and the two resorts share the 103km of pistes.

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.

In certain ski resorts, numbers have exploded ... St. Moritz, Grindelwald and Verbier, says Claudio Zemp, who works for Switzerland Tourism as director of operations in the Americas.

On May 25, 1977 the first Star Wars film was released, and Switzerland has its own claim ... GrindelwaldExternal link is a village and popular ski resort at the foot of the Eiger north face ...