McKinley witnessed two pivotal mountaineering moments. This is Part 2, the story of one of the worst tragedies ever on a ...

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 the weeks leading up to the recent presidential inauguration in Washington, this country and an anxious world expected ...

the "rough beast" as it "slouches towards" Mount McKinley "to be born." Then, to another round of applause, he added ominously: "We have been treated very badly from this foolish gift that should ...

America has always stripped the land of its original Indigenous names. It's had surprising climate implications ...

March 2, 2025 (San Diego) -- Because I worked in Denali National Park during the summer of 2024, lately people have asked me about the naming of Mount McKinley. I talked about this in one of the ...

After President Donald Trump announced that his administration will soon change the name of Denali back to Mount McKinley, the state’s top two federal lawmakers said they do not support the change.

Never mind President Donald Trump’s announcement just hours after his inauguration that he was restoring the behemoth peak’s previous title of Mount McKinley, in honor of a turn-of-the-century ...

We will also use Mount McKinley rather than Denali. Donald Trump has signed an executive order to rename the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America. The body of water has shared borders between the ...