The "decision to return to the McKinley name" for Alaska's mountain is a "slap in the face of recent efforts to acknowledge ...

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 ...

In the weeks leading up to the recent presidential inauguration in Washington, this country and an anxious world expected ...

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

McKinley witnessed two pivotal mountaineering moments. This is Part 2, the story of one of the worst tragedies ever on a ...

the "rough beast" as it "slouches towards" Mount McKinley "to be born." Then, to another round of applause, he added ominously: "We have been treated very badly from this foolish gift that should ...

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