"Remember to wear your shoe grips," the woman in the shuttle bus told me. "Last year, my colleague broke her arm on the first day."
For newcomers to the Alpine town of Davos - especially those from the tropics - the weather is probably the main thing that occupies your mind when you arrive.
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