And so, in the kind of random act that so often accompanies the colonial naming of geographic “discoveries,” Dickey and his comrades decided to bestow the name McKinley upon the huge peak. It caught ...

America has always stripped the land of its original Indigenous names. It's had surprising climate implications ...

McKinley witnessed two pivotal moments in mountaineering history. This is Part 1, the story of McKinley's first winter ascent ...

It’s also involved petty actions, changing the name of the Gulf of Mexico and punishing those who refuse to adhere to the order, and renaming Mount Denali, in Alaska, to Mount McKinley ...

Then a prospector in Alaska who admired president-elect William McKinley and his support for the gold standard called it Mount ... mountain Denali, as it had done with the national park in 1980.

Railbookers has an 11-day train itinerary called "Grand Alaska Adventure with Alaska Railroad Southbound." The journey includes stops at two state parks: Kenai Fjords National Park and Denali ...

In 1970, they became the first group of women to reach the top of the Alaskan mountain — but the odds were against them.

The nine-member Mountaineering Club of Alaska expedition, led by Bill Babcock, had set out on foot from Wonder Lake, at the end of the Denali National Park road, more than three weeks before.

ALASKA is both huge and almost deserted. Over twice the size of the next largest US state, Texas, and with a population density of just over ...

Because I worked in Denali National Park during the summer of 2024, lately people have asked me about the naming of Mount ...