Groups living to the south of the Alaska Range identified it as “the big mountain,” or Dghelay Ka’a in Upper Inlet Dena’ina, ...

“The mountain was named 10,000 years ago by the native people, the Athabascans in the area, and it is called Denali, which means 'the great one',” Alaskan Senator Lisa Murkowski told CB ...

President Donald Trump says he’s changing the official name of Alaska’s — and North America’s — tallest peak from Denali back ...

President Donald Trump signed an executive order Monday renaming Denali—the highest peak in North America—to Mount McKinley, the Alaska mountain’s name prior to 2015, a move he has suggested ...

The tallest mountain in North America was originally changed to the Koyukon Athabascan name Denali, which means "the high one" or "the great one," in 2015 by former President Barack Obama to honor ...

Not one but many Indigenous names At 20,310 feet tall, Denali is visible for ... Groups living to the south of the Alaska Range identified it as "the big mountain," or Dghelay Ka'a in Upper ...

An executive order to rename an Alaskan mountain with the highest peak in North America wouldn't be the first name change for Denali.

The tech giant said in an X post it plans to update the name of Alaska's Denali mountain to Mt. McKinley and the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America. "We have a longstanding practice of applying ...

A video showing an unusual optical illusion around Denali, North America's tallest ... it looks more like the grand canyon than a mountain range!" Do you have a travel-related video or story ...

Native Alaskan groups used a variety of names for the mountain, and they settled on one. ANTONSON: Denali is a Koyukon word that means the high one or the big one. INSKEEP: Took a while ...

Centuries ago, Alaska's native Koyukon people settled on the name "Denali" for the tallest mountain in North America. Then, in 1896, a random European-American gold prospector decided to name it ...