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, they became the first group of women to reach the top of the Alaskan mountain — but the odds were against them.

Some 6,000 feet above us lies the 20,320-foot summit of Alaska's Mount McKinley, also known by one of its native names, Denali. Though not the world's highest mountain when measured from sea level ...