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'''Jean-Marc Peillex''' (born 1 May 1954) is a [[France|French]] local and regional politician from the [[Miscellaneous right|DVD]], currently serving as [[Mayor]] of [[Saint-Gervais-les-Bains]] in the [[department]] of [[Haute-Savoie]]. In May 2014 he was re-elected for 6 years (until 2020).
He became known nationally and internationally by his long campaign for a regulation of the acces to [[Mont Blanc]], the highest summit of the [[French Alps]], via the popular [[Goûter Route on Mont Blanc|Goûter Route]] or ''modern French normal route'' on the territory of his [[municipality]].
==Campaign for regulation==
For decades, overcrowding of the [[Goûter Hut]] and the Goûter Route became a growing problem during the summer months on Mont Blanc, more than elsewhere in the Alps, because of its implications for security and ecology, at a local level interacting with the global [[climate change]] affecting the mountain landscape and mountaineering, leading to more rockfall and crevasse forming by high-altitude [[permafrost degradation]], which also attributed to a rise in the number of accidents with alpinists.
Because of these concerns, mountain tourism and the safety of public in the area became a controversial topic, and Peillex became a major spokesman about the issue, often addressed by the media requesting his comments after tragic fatal accidents and lurid incidents on the mountain.
As the accountable authority for the public order and safety in his municipality, Peillex campaigned during 15 years for regulation by means of a permit system in order to restrict the number of climbers attempting to summit the mountain via the Goûter Refuge, for both safety and [[ecology|ecological]] reasons, in his initiative ''“La Montagne à l'Etat Pur”'' (The Mountain in its purest state) to ''"responsibilitize"'' the climbers.
In the debate over his propositions, he accused the neighbouring municipality [[Chamonix-Mont Blanc]] of blocking attempts to regulate the crowds of climbers, allegedly it had ''“sacrificed Mont Blanc on the altar of money and turned it into a new Disneyland.”'' <ref>[http://bit.ly/2EXAAz1 ''Mont-Blanc, le maire de Saint-Gervais veut responsabiliser les alpinistes'']</ref> <ref>[https://ind.pn/2EWZKyC ''War of words over free access to Mont Blanc summit'']</ref> <ref>[http://bit.ly/2EXAAz1 ''Mont-Blanc, le maire de Saint-Gervais veut responsabiliser les alpinistes'']</ref> <ref>[http://bit.ly/2EVzhRd ''Mont Blanc: la tribune de Jean-Marc Peillex, maire de Saint-Gervais - Réguler l'accès au mont Blanc pour faire face à la surfréquentation et à l'échec de la prévention'']</ref> <ref>[http://bit.ly/2EVURWI ''Voie d'accès du mont-Blanc par Saint-Gervais: 15 ans sur la voie de la réglementation'']</ref> <ref>[http://bit.ly/2EUd0TW ''La montagne à l’état pur'']</ref>
In September 2006 Peillex hosted a public meeting fo which he invited mountain guides, tour organisers and representatives of climbing organisations to discuss his ideas. <ref>[https://ind.pn/2EXdWI8 ''Climbing and conservation: Mont Blanc and a mountain of rubbish'']</ref> 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. Or making it obligatory for climbers to hire a guide, in order to prevent overcrowding in the mountain huts and an increasing number of inexperienced and ignorant visitors risking their lives without the skills to climb the mountain. <ref>[http://bit.ly/2vWWRXc ''Mont Blanc: mayor tries to stop ill-equipped 'hotheads' tackling peak'']</ref> <ref>[http://bit.ly/2EXpPhk ''Obligatory permit to climb Mont Blanc?'']</ref> <ref>[http://bit.ly/2EWUt9x ''The Deadly Mountains: Why More Inexperienced Climbers Are Dying'']</ref> <ref>[http://bit.ly/2EVeY7r ''Italian mountaineers criticise day-trippers for tackling Alpine peaks in shorts and trainers'']</ref> <ref>[http://bit.ly/2EUDNzv ''Mont Blanc officials condemn 'stupidity' of tourist climbers as Irishman falls to death'']</ref> <ref>[http://bit.ly/2ETwCIA ''VIDEO: Watch 'adrenaline junkie' escape avalanche with his young KIDS''] </ref> <ref>[http://bit.ly/2ETSbrO ''Mont Blanc plan to scare novice climbers from corridor of death'']</ref> <ref>[https://lemde.fr/2EXLyW5 ''Le gendarme et les valeurs - La mondialisation du mont Blanc 5/6: Balayant les problèmes de sécurité posés par le Grand Couloir, le maire de Saint-Gervais-les-Bains a fait de l'interdiction du camping sur le massif son cheval de bataille. Au grand désarroi des alpinistes'']</ref>
==Summer of 2017==
On 21st June 2017, Spanish trail runner [[Kilian Jornet]] [[livestream|livestreamed]] on his [[Facebook]] page himself on the summit ridge of Mont Blanc on running shoes and dressed in t-shirt and shorts. This footage would soon become extra controversial when the "deadly summer" of 2017 resulted in a record number of victims, including two trail runners trying to imitate this [[stunt]].
The second accident happened shortly after Peillex decided on 17th August to issue an order with immediate effect by which anyone who accessed the summit should carry adequate equipment.
<ref>[http://bit.ly/2wiQv73 ''Mont Blanc: French mayor to fine badly prepared climbers'']</ref>
He also launched a desperate rhetoric appeal to the French national government, taunting the passivity of president [[Emmanuel Macron|Macron]] and the responsible ministers [[Gérard Collomb|Collomb]] (Interior) and [[Nicolas Hulot| Hulot]] (Ecology) in the debate. <ref>[http://bit.ly/2EVZbp1 ''Accident mortel au Mont-Blanc: le coup de gueule du maire de Saint-Gervais'']</ref>
To enforce the equipment regulations, on 25th August, the prefect of Haute-Savoie announced a reinforcement of the control at the [[Tête Rousse Hut]] on the mountain: gendarmes will check the equipment of climbers and dissuade those ill-equipped to pursue their goal. <ref>[http://bit.ly/2EWUv19 ''Climbing Mont Blanc: security checkpoint at the Tete Rousse Hut'']</ref> <ref>[http://bit.ly/2EXytwg ''French police on Mont Blanc duty try to keep climbers in line'']</ref>
In an interview with [[L'Express]] in August 2017, the Mayor believes that Mont Blanc had become ''"un endroit banal"'', a trite and sordid place. ''"There is a false impression of facility: Mont Blanc has been very popular in recent years, with the mistaken impression of being in an urban environment with relief everywhere."'' <ref>[http://bit.ly/2EW0nYI ''Accidents mortels sur le Mont Blanc: "Il faut siffler la fin de la récréation"'']</ref>
==Summer of 2018==
In 2018 the authorities of the department Haute-Savoie came to terms with the laments and indignation frequently inexorably expressed by Peillex.
During the heat wave in June 2018, Peillex and the prefect issued together an official communiqué with a negative advice, discouraging the climb, and early August 2018, another communiqué alerting for the dangers of the stonefall in the couloir.
On the 13th 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 <ref>[http://bit.ly/2EYJ4aa ''Reconduction des dispositions de l’arrêté préfectoral portant restriction temporaire d’accès au sommet du Mont-Blanc via le refuge du Goûter'']</ref>. The question was raised if such a restriction should become permanent <ref>[http://bit.ly/2EZOq4j ''Mont Blanc deaths spark calls to end 'free-for-all' '']</ref> <ref>[http://bit.ly/2EZEHvF ''Haute-Savoie: Les accès au Mont-Blanc toujours restreints par mesure de précaution. Les accès au Mont-Blanc (Haute-Savoie) par l'itinéraire classique sont resteints depuis le 14 juillet par arrêté préfectoral...'']</ref> <ref>[http://bit.ly/2ESdoT3 ''Mont-Blanc: La limitation d'accès peut-elle devenir permanente? Un arrêté préfectoral pris il y a plusieurs semaines restreint l'accès au Mont-Blanc...'']</ref> <ref>[http://bit.ly/2EVZ9xp ''Troppo caldo sul Monte Bianco: sconsigliata l'ascensione sulla via normale del Gouter'']</ref> <ref>[http://bit.ly/2EW0pji ''Canicule : l’ascension du mont Blanc fortement déconseillée '']</ref> <ref>[http://bit.ly/2EVeWfP ''Alerte aux chutes de pierres dans la voie normale d’ascension du mont Blanc'']</ref>
On 17th August Peillex issued another communiqué in which he vented his indignation about ''"attitudes ahurrisantes et intolérables"'' of impetuous climbers. <ref>[http://bit.ly/2EW0l32 ''Haute-Savoie: «Le summum de l'irrespect est-il atteint?» sur le Mont-Blanc, s'interroge le maire de Saint-Gervais - COUP DE GUEULE - Le maire de Saint-Gervais s'alarme des comportements irrespectueux qui se multiplient selon lui lors de l'ascension du Mont-Blanc...'']</ref>
After another accident ridden summer and several illustrations of the frivolity of some aspiring climbers, as well as incidental aggressive confrontations and antisocial behavior, on 03rd September Peillex could announce to impose in 2019 a permanent restriction in the form of a daily limit of 214 climbers for the route to the Goûter Refuge, according to a decision of the prefecture of the department who had finally yielded by instituting the proposed regulation.
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. <ref>[https://twitter.com/PEILLEX/status/1036723933192445953 the Mayor on Twitter - Jean-Marc PEILLEX @PEILLEX: ''"I am proud to announce that in 2019 the #montblanc will not be flouted."'']</ref>
==External links==
*[http://bit.ly/2EWOy5a Official site of the commune (in French)]
[[Category:Communes of Haute-Savoie]]
==References==
[[Category:Lists of mayors of places in France]]
He became known nationally and internationally by his long campaign for a regulation of the acces to [[Mont Blanc]], the highest summit of the [[French Alps]], via the popular [[Goûter Route on Mont Blanc|Goûter Route]] or ''modern French normal route'' on the territory of his [[municipality]].
==Campaign for regulation==
For decades, overcrowding of the [[Goûter Hut]] and the Goûter Route became a growing problem during the summer months on Mont Blanc, more than elsewhere in the Alps, because of its implications for security and ecology, at a local level interacting with the global [[climate change]] affecting the mountain landscape and mountaineering, leading to more rockfall and crevasse forming by high-altitude [[permafrost degradation]], which also attributed to a rise in the number of accidents with alpinists.
Because of these concerns, mountain tourism and the safety of public in the area became a controversial topic, and Peillex became a major spokesman about the issue, often addressed by the media requesting his comments after tragic fatal accidents and lurid incidents on the mountain.
As the accountable authority for the public order and safety in his municipality, Peillex campaigned during 15 years for regulation by means of a permit system in order to restrict the number of climbers attempting to summit the mountain via the Goûter Refuge, for both safety and [[ecology|ecological]] reasons, in his initiative ''“La Montagne à l'Etat Pur”'' (The Mountain in its purest state) to ''"responsibilitize"'' the climbers.
In the debate over his propositions, he accused the neighbouring municipality [[Chamonix-Mont Blanc]] of blocking attempts to regulate the crowds of climbers, allegedly it had ''“sacrificed Mont Blanc on the altar of money and turned it into a new Disneyland.”'' <ref>[http://bit.ly/2EXAAz1 ''Mont-Blanc, le maire de Saint-Gervais veut responsabiliser les alpinistes'']</ref> <ref>[https://ind.pn/2EWZKyC ''War of words over free access to Mont Blanc summit'']</ref> <ref>[http://bit.ly/2EXAAz1 ''Mont-Blanc, le maire de Saint-Gervais veut responsabiliser les alpinistes'']</ref> <ref>[http://bit.ly/2EVzhRd ''Mont Blanc: la tribune de Jean-Marc Peillex, maire de Saint-Gervais - Réguler l'accès au mont Blanc pour faire face à la surfréquentation et à l'échec de la prévention'']</ref> <ref>[http://bit.ly/2EVURWI ''Voie d'accès du mont-Blanc par Saint-Gervais: 15 ans sur la voie de la réglementation'']</ref> <ref>[http://bit.ly/2EUd0TW ''La montagne à l’état pur'']</ref>
In September 2006 Peillex hosted a public meeting fo which he invited mountain guides, tour organisers and representatives of climbing organisations to discuss his ideas. <ref>[https://ind.pn/2EXdWI8 ''Climbing and conservation: Mont Blanc and a mountain of rubbish'']</ref> 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. Or making it obligatory for climbers to hire a guide, in order to prevent overcrowding in the mountain huts and an increasing number of inexperienced and ignorant visitors risking their lives without the skills to climb the mountain. <ref>[http://bit.ly/2vWWRXc ''Mont Blanc: mayor tries to stop ill-equipped 'hotheads' tackling peak'']</ref> <ref>[http://bit.ly/2EXpPhk ''Obligatory permit to climb Mont Blanc?'']</ref> <ref>[http://bit.ly/2EWUt9x ''The Deadly Mountains: Why More Inexperienced Climbers Are Dying'']</ref> <ref>[http://bit.ly/2EVeY7r ''Italian mountaineers criticise day-trippers for tackling Alpine peaks in shorts and trainers'']</ref> <ref>[http://bit.ly/2EUDNzv ''Mont Blanc officials condemn 'stupidity' of tourist climbers as Irishman falls to death'']</ref> <ref>[http://bit.ly/2ETwCIA ''VIDEO: Watch 'adrenaline junkie' escape avalanche with his young KIDS''] </ref> <ref>[http://bit.ly/2ETSbrO ''Mont Blanc plan to scare novice climbers from corridor of death'']</ref> <ref>[https://lemde.fr/2EXLyW5 ''Le gendarme et les valeurs - La mondialisation du mont Blanc 5/6: Balayant les problèmes de sécurité posés par le Grand Couloir, le maire de Saint-Gervais-les-Bains a fait de l'interdiction du camping sur le massif son cheval de bataille. Au grand désarroi des alpinistes'']</ref>
==Summer of 2017==
On 21st June 2017, Spanish trail runner [[Kilian Jornet]] [[livestream|livestreamed]] on his [[Facebook]] page himself on the summit ridge of Mont Blanc on running shoes and dressed in t-shirt and shorts. This footage would soon become extra controversial when the "deadly summer" of 2017 resulted in a record number of victims, including two trail runners trying to imitate this [[stunt]].
The second accident happened shortly after Peillex decided on 17th August to issue an order with immediate effect by which anyone who accessed the summit should carry adequate equipment.
<ref>[http://bit.ly/2wiQv73 ''Mont Blanc: French mayor to fine badly prepared climbers'']</ref>
He also launched a desperate rhetoric appeal to the French national government, taunting the passivity of president [[Emmanuel Macron|Macron]] and the responsible ministers [[Gérard Collomb|Collomb]] (Interior) and [[Nicolas Hulot| Hulot]] (Ecology) in the debate. <ref>[http://bit.ly/2EVZbp1 ''Accident mortel au Mont-Blanc: le coup de gueule du maire de Saint-Gervais'']</ref>
To enforce the equipment regulations, on 25th August, the prefect of Haute-Savoie announced a reinforcement of the control at the [[Tête Rousse Hut]] on the mountain: gendarmes will check the equipment of climbers and dissuade those ill-equipped to pursue their goal. <ref>[http://bit.ly/2EWUv19 ''Climbing Mont Blanc: security checkpoint at the Tete Rousse Hut'']</ref> <ref>[http://bit.ly/2EXytwg ''French police on Mont Blanc duty try to keep climbers in line'']</ref>
In an interview with [[L'Express]] in August 2017, the Mayor believes that Mont Blanc had become ''"un endroit banal"'', a trite and sordid place. ''"There is a false impression of facility: Mont Blanc has been very popular in recent years, with the mistaken impression of being in an urban environment with relief everywhere."'' <ref>[http://bit.ly/2EW0nYI ''Accidents mortels sur le Mont Blanc: "Il faut siffler la fin de la récréation"'']</ref>
==Summer of 2018==
In 2018 the authorities of the department Haute-Savoie came to terms with the laments and indignation frequently inexorably expressed by Peillex.
During the heat wave in June 2018, Peillex and the prefect issued together an official communiqué with a negative advice, discouraging the climb, and early August 2018, another communiqué alerting for the dangers of the stonefall in the couloir.
On the 13th 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 <ref>[http://bit.ly/2EYJ4aa ''Reconduction des dispositions de l’arrêté préfectoral portant restriction temporaire d’accès au sommet du Mont-Blanc via le refuge du Goûter'']</ref>. The question was raised if such a restriction should become permanent <ref>[http://bit.ly/2EZOq4j ''Mont Blanc deaths spark calls to end 'free-for-all' '']</ref> <ref>[http://bit.ly/2EZEHvF ''Haute-Savoie: Les accès au Mont-Blanc toujours restreints par mesure de précaution. Les accès au Mont-Blanc (Haute-Savoie) par l'itinéraire classique sont resteints depuis le 14 juillet par arrêté préfectoral...'']</ref> <ref>[http://bit.ly/2ESdoT3 ''Mont-Blanc: La limitation d'accès peut-elle devenir permanente? Un arrêté préfectoral pris il y a plusieurs semaines restreint l'accès au Mont-Blanc...'']</ref> <ref>[http://bit.ly/2EVZ9xp ''Troppo caldo sul Monte Bianco: sconsigliata l'ascensione sulla via normale del Gouter'']</ref> <ref>[http://bit.ly/2EW0pji ''Canicule : l’ascension du mont Blanc fortement déconseillée '']</ref> <ref>[http://bit.ly/2EVeWfP ''Alerte aux chutes de pierres dans la voie normale d’ascension du mont Blanc'']</ref>
On 17th August Peillex issued another communiqué in which he vented his indignation about ''"attitudes ahurrisantes et intolérables"'' of impetuous climbers. <ref>[http://bit.ly/2EW0l32 ''Haute-Savoie: «Le summum de l'irrespect est-il atteint?» sur le Mont-Blanc, s'interroge le maire de Saint-Gervais - COUP DE GUEULE - Le maire de Saint-Gervais s'alarme des comportements irrespectueux qui se multiplient selon lui lors de l'ascension du Mont-Blanc...'']</ref>
After another accident ridden summer and several illustrations of the frivolity of some aspiring climbers, as well as incidental aggressive confrontations and antisocial behavior, on 03rd September Peillex could announce to impose in 2019 a permanent restriction in the form of a daily limit of 214 climbers for the route to the Goûter Refuge, according to a decision of the prefecture of the department who had finally yielded by instituting the proposed regulation.
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. <ref>[https://twitter.com/PEILLEX/status/1036723933192445953 the Mayor on Twitter - Jean-Marc PEILLEX @PEILLEX: ''"I am proud to announce that in 2019 the #montblanc will not be flouted."'']</ref>
==External links==
*[http://bit.ly/2EWOy5a Official site of the commune (in French)]
[[Category:Communes of Haute-Savoie]]
==References==
[[Category:Lists of mayors of places in France]]
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