Chemin de la Mâture

The Atlas Obscura Podcast

SiriusXM Podcasts & Atlas Obscura

Society & Culture, Places & Travel

4.6 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 5 April 2022

⏱️ 13 minutes

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This treacherous path cut through a stretch of the Pyrenees Mountains in France may have played a key part in one nation’s quest for international influence and possibly helped foment a revolution. READ MORE IN THE ATLAS: https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/chemin-de-la-mature

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0:00.0	You're on a small rocky path, 600 feet above the ground.
0:09.6	To your left, the rising stones of the Pyrenees mountains.
0:12.9	To your right, a straight drop down into a canyon known as the Gorge of Hell.
0:17.4	And in between, is this narrow path cut right into the rock side, just wide enough for
0:22.5	a couple of people to walk side by side.
0:25.1	It stretches like this for close to a mile.
0:28.0	And for over 250 years, people have been traveling this treacherous path.
0:33.3	Because on the other side of that Gorge was something of immense importance, something
0:38.1	every major nation needed.
0:41.0	Trees.
0:42.8	Really, really big trees.
0:51.0	I'm Dylan Thurus and this is Atlas Obscura.
0:54.1	A celebration of the world's strange, incredible and wondrous places.
0:58.7	Today, we journey deep into the mountains of France to a short stretch of trail known
1:03.1	as the Chemin de Mature.
1:05.1	Well, it's less than a mile long, it had a big impact on the world.
1:09.7	Today on the show, if a tree falls in the forest, does it start a revolution?
1:17.0	More after this.
1:24.1	Correct me if I'm mispronouncing it.
1:38.4	Chemin de Mature.
1:41.4	Bish, Chaman de Mature.
1:44.3	Chaman de Mature.
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