advance base
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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
Wewak on New Guinea had been developed into an advance base, now that the Lae-Salamaua area of eastern New Guinea was so clearly dominated by Allied power.
From Time Magazine Archive
Watson, R. A. M. C. Good building at Pless for a hospital of fifty or seventy-five beds, which was necessary to be taken over and used as advance base evacuating hospital after Dvina froze.
From The History of the American Expedition Fighting the Bolsheviki Campaigning in North Russia 1918-1919 by Lewis E. Jahns
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