Meaning of summit fever | Babel Free

Definitions

1. The compulsion to reach the summit of a mountain at all costs.
   uncountable
2. The obsessive urge to complete a task.
   broadly, figuratively, uncountable

Examples

“Now that we were so close on Kilimanjaro, summit fever was taking me again.”

“We suffer from summit fever. We push just a little harder, hoping we can rest when we get to the top. When we postpone an oasis until our to-do list is finished or until we've answered all of the 193 emails in our in-box, then we have summit fever.”

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