In 1970, six climbers set out to summit Denali in the first all-women’s attempt at any of the world’s big mountains. Their ...
In 1970, they became the first group of women to reach the top of the Alaskan mountain — but the odds were against them.
McKinley witnessed two pivotal moments in mountaineering history. This is Part 1, the story of McKinley's first winter ascent ...
An exclusive excerpt from ‘Thirty Below’ remembers the women who made history on the mountain our president insists on ...
Grace Hoeman was one of the best mountaineers of the 1960s, but male-dominated climbing groups refused to let her join. When ...
The local Athabaskan Indians reverently called the perpetually snow-covered mountain Denali ... the allure of being the first to scale the continent's tallest summit had attracted a handful ...
“We don’t know who McKinley is,” said Jones, who co-authored the first ... it.” Denali means “the tall one” or “the great one” in some Athabascan languages, and the summit was ...
Sri Lankan mountaineer Johann Peries is just one summit away from completing the world’s most coveted mountaineering ...
From the first morning of the Mountaineering Club ... If she made it all the way to the summit of Denali, she would be only the third woman ever to reach the highest point in North America ...