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

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

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 ...

Another, Episcopal priest Hudson Stuck, 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 restoration to ...

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

From military bases to wildlife refuges, a president who specializes in branding is renaming things to make a point.

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

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