perilous journeys
Risky long travels
Perilous journeys are travels fraught with danger or risk.
The phrase appears in adventure narratives, epic literature, and descriptions of migration: The refugees undertook perilous journeys across the Mediterranean.
It carries a literary or dramatic weight, suggesting not mere inconvenience but genuine threat to life or safety.
- Lewis and ClarkEarly 1800s expedition leaders
- wagon trainPioneers' covered convoy
- ExodusMass departure from a place
- Marco PoloMedieval Venetian who reached China
- pilgrimageReligious journey to shrine
avalanche · Odyssey · sea voyage · rough seas · resilience · Trail of Tears · uncharted territory · determination · shipwreck · rationing · against all odds · fog · life or death · survival mode · fortitude · exploration · Middle Passage · refugees