France Takes Action Against Mont Blanc Hikers Who Do Their Business in Fields
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Authorities say that the "everything-go-it-all" mentality is over after hikers in mountain huts demand spas and lifts.
The principle of a charter to regulate access to the Mont-Blanc tower is currently being discussed. Since the Covid, "50% more trekkers" have transformed the mountain. Thus, communes, refuges, guides or transporters have taken on some common principles. A "regulation" welcomed by TF1info by David Rodrigues, director of the Compagnie des Guides de Chamonix. - "Administrations sold the tour without a guide": the actors of the mountain regulate acc…
The municipalities of the massif, the lodges and the guides want to establish a charter specifying the obligations and prohibitions of the more and more hikers to carry out this trek of 170 km and 10,000 meters of elevation.
Taxis, suitcases, wild bivouacs: the mayors of the Mont-Blanc tower prepare a charter. Booking every night could become mandatory as early as the summer of 2027.
The 170-kilometre route, which has become the most popular route in the Alps, has welcomed more than 90,000 hikers this summer. Faced with numerous drifts and pressures on ecosystems, elected officials, guides and shelter owners want to tackle its regulation.
Faced with the explosion of the traffic since the Covid, the French actors of the Mont-Blanc tour want to put an end to the wild bivouac and introduce the compulsory reservation of the accommodation. The communes and professionals of the mountain agreed on the main principles of a charter, which must regulate the access to this trek of 170 kilometers and preserve its environment.
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