The Saas Valley offers a unique mountain and glacier landscape full of adventure.

A little history of alpine tourism

Klaus Höfler, 04.08.2025

The development of tourism in the Swiss mountains is a collection of legendary hero stories, quirky anecdotes, and spectacular feats of engineering — topped off with world-class cuisine.

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It only takes a few keyboard chords and drum beats - and you're either delighted or annoyed. The Wham! classic "Last Christmas" has been part of the Christmas soundtrack for exactly forty years. The video, which has now been viewed almost a billion times in various versions on YouTube alone, is also an indestructible long-seller. It's much less well known that the clip was filmed in Saas-Fee in the canton of Valais.

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