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 ...

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

The national park that surrounds it draws half ... wrote the same year about the journey in a book he titled “The Ascent of Denali (Mount McKinley).” In it, Stuck lodges “a plea for the ...

Mount McKinley was officially renamed Denali in 2015, ending a century-long naming controversy. The decision was announced by then-Secretary of the Interior, Sally Jewell, citing a 1947 law ...

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

The national park area surrounding Mount McKinley shall retain the name Denali National Park and Preserve," the order states. The same order also directed the Interior secretary to rename the Gulf ...

Because I worked in Denali National Park during the summer of 2024, lately people have asked me about the naming of Mount ...

The iconic 20,310-foot (6,190-meter) mountain, snow-capped and dotted with glaciers, is in Denali National Park and Preserve. A prospector in 1896 dubbed the peak “Mount McKinley” after ...

mountain in Denali National Park and Preserve for McKinley, saying a 2015 decision by the Obama administration to recognize the peak as Denali instead of Mount McKinley was “an affront to ...

mountain in Denali National Park and Preserve for McKinley, saying a 2015 decision by the Obama administration to recognize the peak as Denali instead of Mount McKinley was “an affront to ...