In 1967, Mount McKinley (Denali) witnessed two pivotal moments in mountaineering history. In Part I of this series, we told the story of McKinley’s first winter ascent. Later that same year, during ...

DENALI PARK, Alaska — A Seattle man died this week after falling 3,000 feet while ski mountaineering on Alaska's Mount McKinley, park officials said. Alex Chiu, 41, was recovered Wednesday morning ...

Seattle resident Alex Chiu died after falling 3,000 feet from the Mount McKinley West Buttress climbing route onto the Peters Glacier, according to the National Park Service. He was 41 years old. On ...

Climbers were on an icy Alaska mountain when they saw a man in their group fall 3,000 feet to his death in Denali National Park, officials said. Alex Chiu, 41, of Seattle died June 2 after falling ...

A climber who died high on Mount McKinley Thursday has now been identified by the National Park Service as 38-year-old Beat Niederer of St. Gallen, Switzerland. Neiderer was on a rope team of four ...

JUNEAU, Alaska | A 20-year-old climber died shortly after reaching the top of North America's highest peak, just days after another adventurer became the first known person to die at the summit, park ...

JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) – U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski has introduced legislation to change the name of North America’s tallest peak from Mount McKinley to Mount Denali. It is the latest move in a ...

One hundred years ago an artist by the name of Belmore Browne came within 300 yards of becoming the first person to stand atop North America's tallest peak. And then he got lost. Not in the literal ...

On May 28, Max Kilcoyne stood alone above 6,000m. Below him, clouds swirled over the Kahiltna Glacier. Above him, only the upper ridgeline of McKinley and the summit of Mount Foraker pierced the ...

Traveling up to the summit of Mount McKinley, Rod Johnson had something unusual in his pack: liters of wine. Johnson and his ...

Mount McKinley’s West Buttress is pictured. A 41-year-old Seattle man fell to his death from the mountain, officials said. National Park Service Climbers were on an icy Alaska mountain when they saw a ...