In 1978, American mountaineer Johnny Waterman completed the first solo ascent and traverse of Mount Hunter’s twin summits in ...

have been in the interior of Alaska for at least 20,000 years. The naming/renaming of Mt. McKinley to Denali and Denali to ...

McKinley, who was later elected president and assassinated in 1901, had no direct connection to Alaska. Despite the official adoption of 'Mount McKinley' in 1917 when the national park was ...

However, in the late 1800s, a prospector named it Mount McKinley to honor then-presidential candidate William McKinley, who had no connection to Alaska. The name stuck federally in 1917 ...

The Alaska Lands Act of 1980 would greatly affect Mount McKinley National Park, nearly tripling it in size by adding 2.4 million acres to the park itself, plus an additional 1.3 million acres in ...

Mapmakers and teachers are re-thinking what to call the gulf of water between Mexico, the United States and Cuba ...

Alaska's U.S. senators in 2017 vehemently opposed a prior suggestion by Trump that the name Denali revert back to Mount McKinley. Trump revisited the topic during a rally late last year, following ...