I think it could have a positive influence. As every HP Lovecraft fan knows, the Antarctic Mountains of Madness are vastly higher than the Himalaya and by far the highest in the world, but public reports of these mountains have been suppressed to avoid creating interest in them, which could lead to more humans blundering into the frozen and long-dormant city of the Old Ones in the plateau of Leng beyond the Mountains, and awakening the ancient evil there.
Now on the other hand, if students of Non-Euclidean calculus and quantum physics were to correlate abstract formulae on the properties of space and the linkage of dimensions known and unknown with the terrible hints from the dreaded Necronomicon of Abdul Alhazred, the fragmentary Book of Eibon, and the suppressed Unaussprechlicken Kulten of von Junzt, they might discover the secrets of teleportation, but also open a portal allowing dark and fearsome Old Ones direct access into our world. If that in fact happened, mankind would once again have to face that ancient nameless evil - but that would also mean that there would be no further reason to shun the Mountains of Madness since the evil beyond them would already have been unleashed.
Which means we'd finally be able to climb the highest mountains in the world!