Our guide to the best mountaineering books of all time picks out 10 seminal works that have informed and inspired generations ...

The White House barred AP from covering certain events over the organization's refusal to call the Gulf of Mexico the Gulf of ...

In Koyukon, a language of the Athabaskan people for whom the mountain plays a central role in their creation story, it is known as “the high one” or “the great one”: Denali. In 2015 ...

The United States is in the midst of a place-renaming moment. From the renaming of the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America, to the return of Forts Bragg and Benning and the newly re-renamed Mount ...

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

The nine-member Mountaineering Club of Alaska expedition, led by Bill Babcock, had set out on foot from Wonder Lake, at the end of the Denali National Park road, more than three weeks before.

The state of Alaska requested the name change in 1975, but the Board on Geographic Names didn’t take action. Members of the Ohio congressional delegation – President William McKinley was from Ohio – ...

I dove into the saga for my new book, Thirty Below: The Harrowing and Heroic Story of the First All-Women’s Ascent of Denali. A note on the name of the mountain: From 1917 to 2015, North America ...

Those incidents along with the one below would spur Grace to develop a bold idea: to lead the first all-women’s team up the great mountain. Two months after Vin Hoeman returned from Denali in ...

In 1970, the first all-female team summited Denali. The new book "Thirty Below" by Cassidy Randall tells this forgotten story ...

I n June of 1970, amid the snow-covered rock ramparts of Denali (the true name of North America’s highest peak), six women ...

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