Savoie | He abandons his rower on Mont-Blanc: an elected official complains of the "squeakers"

After a plane, a rower: a Briton climbed on the roof of Europe with his weight machine, before abandoning it at more than 4.300 meters above sea level, denounced a local elected representative, lambasting successive provocations of "oddballs."

On Saturday, "a member of the Royal Commando of the British Army" went "rowing at the top of Mont Blanc" and, "tired", he abandoned his equipment in a shelter of distress, at 4.362 meters above sea level , revealed photos in support Jean-Marc Peillex, mayor of St. Gervais-les-Bains.

A weekend to be classified in the annals according to the apostle since at the same time a German mountaineer mounted "by force" and in the middle of the night his dog. The animal came back Sunday alive but the "bloody paws".

The elected High Savoyard, well known for his bloodshed, has decided to make public these two marks of "disrespect" with an open letter to Emmanuel Macron in which he asks to "write and vote without delay the regulation which will allow from 2020 to punish severely all the quibbles that would contravene and thus restore peace to Mont Blanc ".

Otherwise this jewel of the Alps, already threatened by global warming, is becoming a "national amusement park where everyone can admire sea lions juggling balloons or shoot beautiful fireworks", which would lead the "downgrading of this classified site".

In June, two Swiss tourists by plane landed at 4,450 meters without climbing to finish on foot to the summit, before being intercepted by the gendarmes. This landing is only punishable by a fine of 38 euros, a PS senator has since tabled a bill to strengthen the sanctions in case of illegal landing in the mountains.

Very many mountain climbers climb each year the highest peak in Western Europe with 4.809 meters, sometimes in bad conditions of safety or preservation of the environment.

To improve the situation and limit the over-frequenting and incivilities, the local authorities took a decree in May obliging all the persons undertaking the ascent by the so-called "normal" way to be in possession of a reservation in good and due form in one of the three official refuges of the course.