The "decision to return to the McKinley name" for Alaska's mountain is a "slap in the face of recent efforts to acknowledge ...

The Mesquite Hollow Trail, created by volunteers and located in the McDowell Mountain Preserve, recently opened to the public ...

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I n June of 1970, amid the snow-covered rock ramparts of Denali (the true name of North America’s highest peak), six women took their first steps in a historic feat. Led by Alas ...

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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 ...

Our headline today comes to us courtesy of wilderness preservationist John Muir, via Debbie R. White’s new self-published book Mountain Escapades. It’s one of the epigrams that lead into her 50 ...

The desire to recreate the Gilded Age is fueled by Trump’s fondness for tariffs. It’s also why he praises the nation’s 25th ...

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