The first of those, Walter Harper, was an Alaska Native. Another, Episcopal priest Hudson Stuck, wrote the same year about the journey in a book he titled “The Ascent of Denali (Mount McKinley).” ...

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

Walter Harper, a Koyukon Athabascan, was the first individual to reach the summit of Denali, achieving this historic feat with his expedition team on June 7. One hundred years later, on June 28 ...

The local Athabaskan Indians reverently called the perpetually snow-covered mountain Denali, "The High One ... an experienced local outdoorsman; and Walter Harper, the son of a fur trapper ...