Mt. Everest syndrome

English

Noun

Mt. Everest syndrome

1. Alternative form of Everest syndrome.
   • 1978, Iatrogenesis: Just What the Doctor Ordered, The Rand Corporation, page 12:

     There exists in medicine, as in most pursuits, a certain degree of the Mt. Everest syndrome: When asked why he climbed the mountain, an adventurer replied, "Because it is there." It is useful to pause in our enthusiasm to label and ask ourselves to what end we do it.

   • 1979, Nicholas G. Douvas, editor, Symposium on Cataracts: Transactions of the New Orleans Academy of Ophthalmology, Mosby, →ISBN, page 170:

     When it is in the anterior chamber, the lens can and should be easily extracted for the reasons just given and not because of Chandler’s “Mt. Everest syndrome” (the urge to meet and conquer a challenge).

   • 1990, Capacity Management Review, page 6:

     He suggests that it is probably due to the Mt. Everest syndrome at work, i.e., the TPS metric was “there.”