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

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

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

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 ...

A volcano near Alaska’s largest city is showing new signs of unrest, with experts saying the likelihood of an eruption at ...

Ski mountains. We went to Netflix founder Reed Hastings’s new Powder Mountain to see how private mountains are taking over — ...

In President Donald Trump’s idealized framing, the United States was at its zenith in the 1890s. The Republican has said repeatedly, “We were at our richest from 1870 to 1913.

McKinley witnessed two pivotal mountaineering moments. This is Part 2, the story of one of the worst tragedies ever on a ...

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

A group of local adventurers recently climbed to the top of Mount Kilimanjaro as part of a fundraising effort to support the ...

Trump. But nobody expected this. Nobody at all. “We will restore the name of a great president, William McKinley, to Mount ...

In 1970, they became the first group of women to reach the top of the Alaskan mountain — but the odds were against them.