Each story is rooted in real local history and landmarks
A young Walser girl migrates with her family from the Valais over high Alpine passes to the Landwasser valley around 1280. In a land of deep snow and towering peaks, she discovers the freedom of a new community where no one pays personal taxes, and helps negotiate the first charter of rights with the Baron of Vaz that will shape Davos for centuries.
A sick child arrives at a Davos sanatorium in 1900, frightened by the strict routines of five meals a day and hours on freezing balconies. But on the terrace of the Schatzalp, a friendly marmot appears and teaches the child that the mountain air at 1,560 metres carries healing secrets -- sunshine, silence, and the slow magic of breathing deeply in the highest town in Europe.
Inspired by Thomas Mann's novel, a child visits a cousin in a mountain hotel and discovers that time moves differently at 1,560 metres. Each floor of the Schatzalp reveals a different era of Davos history -- sanatorium patients on sun balconies, waltzing guests at a grand hotel, and a Nobel laureate writing in a corner -- and the child must find the exit before seven years slip away like seven days.
A child discovers one of Kirchner's vibrant Alpine paintings in the museum and steps into the canvas. Inside the bold colours and angular shapes of 1920s Davos, they explore the mountain world with the artist himself, learning to see familiar peaks in blazing reds and electric blues -- and understanding how the mountains healed a broken man through colour and light.
On December 26, the old Eisstadion in Davos comes alive with the spirits of hockey players from 1923. Oxford students in vintage kit face off against Berlin on the ice, while Dr. Carl Spengler watches from the stands. A child must help them complete the first match and keep the tradition of sporting peace alive -- proving that a game can heal what war has broken.
Arthur Conan Doyle arrives in Davos in 1894 and recruits a local child and ski guide Tobias Branger to help him cross the Maienfelder Furka Pass on these strange Norwegian planks. Along the snow-covered route, Doyle's detective instincts kick in when mysterious tracks appear in the snow, and the trio must solve a mountain mystery worthy of Sherlock Holmes himself.
A child staying in Davos finds an old map hidden in the walls of the Villa am Stein, where Robert Louis Stevenson once spent two winters. Following its clues through the snowy Landwasser valley -- past frozen waterfalls and pine forests -- they discover it is Stevenson's original sketch for Treasure Island, drawn in the mountains where the mountain air gave a dying man just enough breath to write his masterpiece.
In 1890, a child rides the very first train from Landquart up to Davos, watching the valley walls close in as the narrow-gauge locomotive climbs higher and higher. At each tunnel and viaduct, the Rhaetian Railway reveals a different Alpine secret, until they arrive at 1,560 metres -- the highest town in Europe -- and the child understands how a railway turned a remote valley into a crossroads of the world.
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