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
And far out in the Pacific, 1,242 miles west of Kodiak, is the Navy's outmost listening post, Kiska Island, which can be used as an advance base for U. S. Navy operations.
From Time Magazine Archive
And he had established this advance base by direct intervention, too.
From The Players by Steve Solomon
