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).” ...

The National Park Service said the crash happened just south of the entrance to the Delani Park Road around 1 a.m. Friday.

“The shackles of injustice, of ignorance.” This story was originally published by Grist with the headline ‘It’s about control’: Why Trump renamed Denali to Mount McKinley on Feb 18, 2025.

Denali is an Athabascan word meaning “the high one” or “the great one.” The iconic 20,310-foot (6,190-meter) mountain, snow-capped and dotted with glaciers, is in Denali National Park and ...

The Alaska Legislature has passed a resolution urging President Donald Trump to reverse course and retain the name of North America’s tallest peak as Denali rather than change it to Mount McKinley.

(McKinley served as president from 1987 until his assassination in 1901.) The name was officially changed to Denali, as a symbolic gesture to the Koyukon people, by the Obama administration in 2015.

Trump vows to change the name of Denali, North America's tallest peak, despite Alaska's wishes Alaska's U.S. senators in 2017 vehemently opposed a prior suggestion by Trump that the name Denali be ...

The Alaska Legislature has passed a resolution urging President Donald Trump to reverse course and retain the name of North America’s tallest peak as Denali rather than change it to Mount McKinley.

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 ...

The Alaska Legislature has passed a resolution urging President Donald Trump to reverse course and retain the name of North America's tallest peak as Denali rather than change it to Mount McKinley.