advance base
Example Sentences
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On 30 May 1953 Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay arrived back at advance base camp after climbing Everest.
From The Guardian • Feb. 28, 2021
"Snow conditions bad" meant Hillary, and "advance base abandoned" meant Tenzing.
From BBC • May 29, 2013
"It said, 'snow conditions bad, advance base abandoned, yesterday'," Jackson recalled.
From BBC • May 29, 2013
Last Sunday every important foreign correspondent with Italy's Northern armies was summoned to Marshal Badoglio's advance base on the flanks of Amba Gheden a few miles beyond Makale.
From Time Magazine Archive
This outpost would serve as an advance base and point of defense for operations against Opechancanough, King of the Pamunkeys, and his many warriors.
From Virginia Under Charles I And Cromwell, 1625-1660 by Washburn, Wilcomb E.
