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
And if he is to act on the offensive, what direction will his operations take; will he secure an advance base; and if so, where?
From The Navy as a Fighting Machine by Bradley A. (Bradley Allen) Fiske
