Rising tall against the endless tundra and boreal forests below, the highest peak in North America dominates the central Alaska landscape. Soaring 20,310 feet above the earth, the mountain, known ...

Mount McKinley was officially renamed Denali in 2015, ending a century-long naming controversy. The decision was announced by then-Secretary of the Interior, Sally Jewell, citing a 1947 law ...

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 ...

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 – ...

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I have rescinded my executive order renaming Mount McKinley, Mount McKinley. Apparently, I upset some of my Alaska friends when I gave it back its real name. Since my goal is to bring unity to ...

In 1967, Mount McKinley (Denali) witnessed two pivotal moments in mountaineering history. In February, a group of climbers embarked on a grueling quest for the first-ever winter summit.

North America’s tallest mountain was officially named Mount McKinley. But over that century, Alaskans, climbers, and many others still called it by the name it had held for millennia: Denali ...

President Donald Trump on Monday vowed to rename North America's tallest peak, Denali in Alaska, as Mount McKinley — reviving an idea he floated years ago that at that time saw strong pushback ...

LOS ANGELES — The body of water formerly known in the United States as the Gulf of Mexico is now listed for U.S.-based users of Google Maps as the Gulf of America. The change follows an ...

In 1967, Mount McKinley (Denali) witnessed two pivotal moments in mountaineering history. In Part I of this series, we told the story of McKinley’s first winter ascent. Later that same year ...