English Dictionary

summit fever

noun

(mountaineering) The compulsion to reach the summit of a mountain at all costs. / (figuratively, by extension) The obsessive need to complete a task.

He was so determined to reach the summit that he couldn't think of anything else. Summit fever had taken hold of him.

意味（1）

(mountaineering) 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.

意味（2）

(figuratively, by extension) The obsessive need 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.