In the years following the second World War, the impetus to innovate turned from that of wartime necessity to exploration of the greater natural world, perhaps most notably the innovations that supported the first ascent of Mt. Everest in 1953 by Tenzing Norgay and Sir Edmund Hillary. Part of this ideological shift was also spurred by the International Geophysical Year — a global scientific olive branch that began in 1957 and supported the sharing of scientific research and information between the East and West.
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