Mount Everest syndrome

English

Noun

Mount Everest syndrome

1. Alternative form of Everest syndrome.
   • 1996, Chuck Musciano, Bill Kennedy, HTML: The Definitive Guide, O’Reilly & Associates, →ISBN, page 189:

     Resist falling prey to the “Mount Everest syndrome” of inserting images simply because you can.

   • 2014, Nancy Morse, chapter 8, in Sacred Places, →ISBN, page 97:

     “People have been interested in Indian land ever since they knew it was there. Sort of like the Mount Everest syndrome, I guess.”

   • 2017, Rafael Biermann, “The Role of International Bureaucracies”, in Rafael Biermann, Joachim A. Koops, editors, The Palgrave Handbook of Inter-Organizational Relations in World Politics, Palgrave Macmillan, →ISBN, section 3 (Theories and Approaches), page 250:

     The regime turn in IR started with Robert Keohane (1969) accusing UN studies of suffering from a ‘Mount Everest syndrome’. It is not sufficient, he argued, to study the UN because it is there.