Sentence examples for before expedition from inspiring English sources

Two to three weeks before expedition teams arrive at base camp to kick off the climbing season, the icefall doctors begin making forays into the glacier.

"It appears to represent a blank page in a chapter of Earth time not seen before," says expedition leader John Ostrom of Yale University.

To embody the spirit of a traditional base camp — where mountaineers swap equipment, advice and war stories before expeditions — with a modern, eco-chic touch.

He then spent five laboured years raising money – from the government, the RGS, private backers and commercial sponsors – for another expedition before again setting off, this time on the Terra Nova, in June 1910.

If you're unfit, the time to start exercising is 6-12 weeks before you go, not two days before the expedition.

He died, however, before the expedition could get under way.

The trouble began before the expedition left Paris.

I bought it before an expedition up the Nile.

Under Christian V he was appointed to command the Danish fleet against Sweden but died before the expedition.

(He also read "2001: A Space Odyssey," by Arthur C. Clarke, and appreciated the book's slow pace, which he said he would have found tedious before his expedition).

Three died before the expedition began: one on a deep dive in Ireland, another in an underwater crevice in Australia, the third from carbon monoxide poisoning in Cozumel.