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
Most logical spot for launching a Japanese drive to the south would be Japan's advance base at Formosa.
From Time Magazine Archive
These were more recent, and dated from Poictesme's second hectic prosperity, when the Gartner Trisystem had been the advance base for the Third Fleet-Army Force, during the System States War.
From The Cosmic Computer by Piper, H. Beam
