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
"It said, 'snow conditions bad, advance base abandoned, yesterday'," Jackson recalled.
From BBC • May 29, 2013
"Snow conditions bad" meant Hillary, and "advance base abandoned" meant Tenzing.
From BBC • May 29, 2013
In nine months they had built the greatest advance base in the Pacific�some 5,000 miles from San Francisco, and but 1,500 miles from Japan.
From Time Magazine Archive
The advance base, commanded by Treadmore, was fairly well equipped.
From Unwise Child by Garrett, Randall
