Translation of Mist

My boss offered it to me, so that a few more people at work will have a good level of English and now I really have to kick my own ass (I've started last year and it's not going very well).
If you go to the shopping mall to buy shoes, it takes an hour and two stores until you find the right pair of shoes. But if you go shopping 'stuff' generally, it might take you an entire day to finish.
I've never been to Switzerland, but I'd like to go to the Alps. Until now I was only in Austria and in France. Maybe I will go there, for example skiing in Davos or in another nice mountain village.