America has always stripped the land of its original Indigenous names. It's had surprising climate implications ...
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 ...
McKinley witnessed two pivotal moments in mountaineering history. This is Part 1, the story of McKinley's first winter ascent ...
William McKinley, the 25th president, hailed from Ohio and never visited Alaska, but a prospector dubbed the peak "Mount McKinley" in 1896 — the year McKinley went on to be elected president.
Then a prospector in Alaska who admired president-elect William McKinley and his support for the gold standard called it Mount McKinley in a newspaper article in 1897. The name took, and the ...
A volcano near Alaska’s largest city is showing new signs of unrest, with experts saying the likelihood of an eruption at ...
President Trump mentioned Alaska during his address, announcing a massive natural gas pipeline project. He also referenced ...
The Alaska Volcano Observatory said signs indicated a Mount Spurr eruption was likely, though not certain, in the weeks or ...
On March 11th, 1942, while performing zigzag patterns while under sail in an effort to avoid any torpedo launches from Japanese submarines thought to be in the area, the steamship Mount McKinley ran ...
President Trump mentioned Alaska during his address, announcing a massive natural gas pipeline project. He also referenced ...
Because I worked in Denali National Park during the summer of 2024, lately people have asked me about the naming of Mount ...