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A new start for the ‘sleeping beauty’ of the Swiss Alps
It’s a Thursday night in late January, and Wengen’s Downhill Only Club (DHO) is just about standing room only. There must be 70 people, many of them silver-haired, packed into the red-carpeted clubhouse with its trophy cabinets and wall-mounted wooden skis …