>starting next summer, the number of hikers allowed to tackle the Royal Route will be limited to 214 per day.>temporary restrictions had already been imposed on climbers this summer with authorities turning away climbers without pre-booked accommodation at the Goûter refuge>starting next year, climbers without guides must pick up a “free” permit from the tourism office to prove they have a bona fide place in a refuge on a given day>mountain gendarmes are mulling forming a “white brigade” to enforce the new ruleshttps://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2018/09/04/mont-blanc-impose-climber-quotas-cut-crowds-chaos-atop-western/Any other instances of normies ruining the outdoors and subsequently paving the way for more government regulation that come to mind?
