On his first day back in office in January, President Donald Trump wiped away a decade of precedent by restoring "Mount McKinley" as the federal name for Alaska's iconic peak, reversing the Barack ...
Alaskan leaders continue to unite behind keeping with the traditional name of North America’s highest peak. In response to President Donald Trump’s executive order, Sen. Lisa Murkowski presented a ...
A 41-year-old man who fell to his death earlier this week had recently recovered from North America's highest mountain. The National Park Service (NPS) shared in a press release that the mountaineer, ...
I was in Anchorage, Alaska, in August of 2015 when the Interior Secretary officially changed the name of Mount McKinley to Denali. The front page of the Alaska Dispatch News led with the headline: “It ...
A climber looking to ascend the tallest peak in the country has died. Alex Chiu fell while ascending the West Buttress climbing route on Mount McKinley in Alaska earlier this week, and park officials ...
Kilian Jornet, one of the world’s most accomplished mountaineers, did something this month that left even other elite athletes gasping: He climbed all 72 summits in the contiguous United States that ...