I n June of 1970, amid the snow-covered rock ramparts of Denali (the true name of North America’s highest peak), six women ...

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.

Cassidy Randall is the author of “Thirty Below: The Harrowing and Heroic Story of the First All-Women’s Ascent of Denali.” ...

McKinley witnessed two pivotal moments in mountaineering history. This is Part 1, the story of McKinley's first winter ascent ...

Grace Hoeman was one of the best mountaineers of the 1960s, but male-dominated climbing groups refused to let her join. When ...

In 1970, the wind-swept slopes of Denali were the site of an unsung historic feat: the first all-women’s attempt to summit one of the big mountains of the world. By then, we had sent men to the ...

“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 ...

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 ...