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

In the weeks leading up to the recent presidential inauguration in Washington, this country and an anxious world expected many different things from what ...

As one of his first acts in office, President Trump ordered that the mountain be renamed Mount McKinley in January ... at 23,000 feet before reaching the summit, British reporter Stephen Harper ...

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 ...

Climbers have been scaling Mount McKinley ever since 1913 ... One day later, all seven tried a 3,000-ft. dash to the summit. They were forced back by “white-out”—zero visibility, caused ...

the "rough beast" as it "slouches towards" Mount McKinley "to be born." Then, to another round of applause, he added ominously: "We have been treated very badly from this foolish gift that should ...

a prospector dubbed it Mount McKinley, after the presidential candidate he happened to be supporting. By 1903, the allure of being the first to scale the continent's tallest summit had attracted a ...

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