pathless

Example Sentences

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The 30-mile strenuous and pathless trek across mountainous terrain, rivers and boggy ground is part of the Cape Wrath Trail and is normally completed in three days.

From BBC • Oct. 15, 2025

Mountaineering groups said the dotted line crossed "potentially fatal" steep, rocky and pathless terrain, while a suggested walking route for a different mountain, An Teallach, would lead people over a cliff.

From BBC • Jul. 17, 2021

It may also leave you utterly lost, pathless and disoriented.

From New York Times • Nov. 18, 2016

Clearly, stalking delivers them the present moment—the lawless wild greenery and pathless reality of the Zone—that makes them, if only for a short while, masters of their destinies.

From Slate • Sep. 26, 2014

It was only when he’d been walking for several minutes down the pathless, rocky slope that Will realized his hand wasn’t hurting.

From "The Amber Spyglass" by Philip Pullman