[11][12][13] He put forward some fairly radical propositions; an obligatory permit – of which the number issued would be restricted by the total capacity of the refuges of Tête Rousse and the New Goûter Hut): 210 per day.
[14][15][16][17][18][19][20][21][22][23] On 21 June 2017, Spanish trail runner Kilian Jornet livestreamed on his Facebook page himself on the summit ridge of Mont Blanc on running shoes and dressed in t-shirt and shorts.
[24][25][26][27] He also launched a desperate rhetoric appeal to the French national government, taunting the passivity of president Macron and the responsible ministers Collomb (Interior) and Hulot (Ecology) in the debate.
On 13 July, Pierre Lambert, the prefect of the department Haute-Savoie in Annecy, had already followed Peillex's proposals by issuing a decree that temporarily restricted the route to climbers with a reservation for the hut, which was extended repeatedly.
[49] Starting 2019, climbers on the Goûter Route without guides must pick up a "free" permit from the local tourism office to prove they have a bona fide place in a refuge on a given day.