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Authorities said a "large number of visitors" on the mountain had raised concerns about "health risks" such as water availability and waste disposal issues.
Its summit in France attracts more than 20,000 mountaineers per year. Fifteen people died during attempts on the summit or on the way down the mountain last year, according to the Agence France Presse (AFP) news agency.
The decree was signed the same day. A 25-year-old Slovak mountaineer died after a 250-meter drop on the standard route called "Royal Road", AFP reported.
Climbers taking the usual route to the summit, which takes several days, will now be able to do so only if they have reserved a room in one of the three hotels: Gouter, Tete Rousse and Gouter refuges. Eagle's nest, said the decree.
He stated that it was essential to "prevent trouble" from mountaineers who had not yet reserved a reservation, including a person who "has not recently booked a room at the Taste hut and who threatened the guard. "
A public information campaign launched last summer to dissuade crowds from attempting the climb had proved "ineffective", told AFP Pierre Lambert, regional administrator, urging authorities to tighten restrictions this season.
Mountain guide Adrian Ballinger told CNN that the recent peak of mortality on Mount Everest was in part due to a lack of experience from climbers and tour operators.
"This lack of experience … is at the origin of these images: we see people make bad decisions, get in trouble and end up with unnecessary deaths."
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