Sentence examples for as base camp from inspiring English sources

Cab to Georgetown, where friends have offered spare room as base camp.

An admiralty lawyer, the elder Mr. Houston financed his son's expeditions, often accompanying him as far as base camp.

Our conservatory has been taken over as base camp for Claire's glitter operation since the start of this year.

In the meantime, they are transforming the potential for rescuing both climbers and the far more numerous trekkers heading as far as base camp.

When she first tried to join high-altitude expeditions in the late 1960s, for example, she was told that women could only come as far as base camp — "to help with the cooking".

I began, as most Chiapas visitors do, in San Crist? de las Casas, the nearly 500-year-old Spanish colonial hill town that serves as base camp for exploring the state.

She evokes the physical atmosphere (the "lowing yaks" at base camp) as well as the strained relationships among the men as they encounter the rasping air at 27,000 feet, frost-nipped, taut as wire, sucking on gritty oxygen tubes.

The nights at base camp as well as on the mountain were often punctuated by staccato bursts of noise disturbing the sleep of the sufferer and all those around'.

It was Ms. Kluge's 1981 marriage to the MetroMedia billionaire John Kluge that started a social ascent that used New York and Palm Beach, Fla., as base camps for assaults ultimately aimed at the British royal family, arriviste Everest.

Some uncruisers stake out the front observation lounges, rolling out sleeping bags or cots between the rows of seats by night, keeping the tables as base camps by day for cards, reading and meals they brought from home or bought on board.

The film, which will be presented in 3-D, has enough stars to fill an REI Pinnacle climbing pack: Jake Gyllenhaal and Jason Clarke as rival expedition leaders, Josh Brolin as a doctor, Emily Watson as a base camp manager  and  Keira Knightley, Sam Worthington and Robin Wright rounding out the cast.