America has always stripped the land of its original Indigenous names. It's had surprising climate implications ...
I n June of 1970, amid the snow-covered rock ramparts of Denali (the true name of North America’s highest peak), six women ...
Cassidy Randall is the author of “Thirty Below: The Harrowing and Heroic Story of the First All-Women’s Ascent of Denali.” ...
In 1970, they became the first group of women to reach the top of the Alaskan mountain — but the odds were against them.
“We prefer it to stay Denali,” he said, “and we’re not going to change our name.” What perplexes many here is why Trump chose to thrust a mountain thousands of miles from Washington into ...
McKinley witnessed two pivotal moments in mountaineering history. This is Part 1, the story of McKinley's first winter ascent ...
In 2015, under former President Obama, the Department of the Interior officially changed the mountain’s name from Mount McKinley to Denali, 40 years after Alaska made the same name change.
I dove into the saga for my new book, Thirty Below: The Harrowing and Heroic Story of the First All-Women’s Ascent of Denali. A note on the name of the mountain: From 1917 to 2015, North America ...
Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, has once again introduced a measure to designate the mountain as Denali. Sen. Dan Sullivan, R-Alaska, is the original cosponsor. "In Alaska, it’s Denali," Murkowski ...
Grace Hoeman was one of the best mountaineers of the 1960s, but male-dominated climbing groups refused to let her join. When ...