Mr. Hepworth credits word of mouth, in the local ski community and on Web forums, for demand.
Unfortunately we suspect that Seattle Man does not ski, and is therefore absent from the forum.
Location Set on one side of Flaine Forum, the hotel is the ultimate in ski-in, ski-out convenience.
When he started PM Gear in 2003, Pat Keane sought opinions from the online community at Powder magazine's Web forum to design the ultimate versatile ski.
Participants in the forum will travel to Davos, a secluded Alpine ski town in eastern Switzerland not far from the Austrian border, which is known more for exclusivity than for public outreach.
As Mr Xi describes it, most recently last month at the Boao Forum, China's tropical-beach imitation of Davos's ski slopes, the belt-road concept will "answer the call of our time for regional and global co-operation".
It was also the first held outside the Swiss ski resort of Davos, which has provided the name by which the forum is popularly known.
At times this week, Davos has been gridlocked - this Swiss ski resort just can't cope with the sheer weight of traffic the forum brings.
If you ski, run, walk, cycle, hike, etc. during the winter months, hop on a forum related to your sport to find out what clothing and tips others in your sport have to overcome the cold hands problem.
When the forum and its 2,600 schmoozers, deal makers, politicians and celebrities come to town, Davos, normally a sleepy ski village, becomes a place of surreal contrasts.
