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summit fever en · NOUN
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(uncountable) The compulsion to reach the summit of a mountain at all costs.
Now that we were so close on Kilimanjaro, summit fever was taking me again.
2010, Daniel Dorr, Kissing Kilimanjaro:Leaving it All on Top of Africa, →ISBN:
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(broadly, figuratively, uncountable) The obsessive urge to complete a task.
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.
2004, Steve Donahue, Shifting Sands: A Guidebook for Crossing the Deserts of Change, →ISBN: