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 1967, Mount McKinley (Denali ... is located within the Alaska Range in Denali National Park. It was first summited on June 7, 1913, by a team led by Hudson Stuck and Harry Karstens.

The state of Alaska requested the name change in 1975, but the Board on Geographic Names didn’t take action. Members of the Ohio congressional delegation – President William McKinley was from Ohio – ...

In 1967, Mount McKinley (Denali ... The 1967 tragedy led Denali National Park to modify climbing protocols, including requiring parties to register in advance, document their mountaineering ...

Denali National Park and Preserve checks all of ... the federal government has officially referred to Denali as Mount McKinley, after President William McKinley.

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 ... Bay National Park, also in ...

The journey includes stops at two state parks: Kenai Fjords National ... From Denali, the train chugs south through the small town of Talkeetna, famous for its vistas of Mount McKinley (also ...

In 1917, President Woodrow Wilson signed legislation establishing Mount McKinley National Park ... mountain's Indigenous name, making it Denali National Park and Preserve. In 1919, 37 years ...

President Donald Trump’s Oval Office ambush of Ukraine’s Volodymyr Zelensky last week was rightly seen as a disaster for ...

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.

Similar to Fort Liberty, Trump signed an executive order on his first day back in office returning Denali, North America’s highest mountain, to its former name, Mount McKinley. Lawmakers ...