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 1967, Mount McKinley (Denali ... By the end of 1966, McKinley was still unclimbed in winter. View of the upper area of the Kahiltna Glacier. There is roughly 4,000m between the foreground ...

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

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 ...

McKinley was assassinated in 1901. The name stood more than a century until former President Obama ordered a change in 2015 after pressure from indigenous tribes in the area.

The rules vary, but generally, kids race to the top of a mound and push ... and renaming Mount Denali, in Alaska, to Mount McKinley; a change nobody — not even Republicans in Alaska — wanted.