Climbers have been scaling Mount McKinley ever since 1913, but North America’s tallest peak is still one of the most forbidding mountains in the world. From the floor of the Susitna River valley ...
In 1967, Mount McKinley (Denali) witnessed two pivotal ... He looked for climbers to join him via climbing newsletters. His party eventually included nine members: Wilcox, Jerry Clark, Steve ...
Then a prospector in Alaska who admired president-elect William McKinley and his support for the gold standard called it ...
It caught on enough that Congress made the name official in 1917 when it created Mount McKinley National Park. But the mountain — the tallest in North America, scraping the sky at 20,310 feet ...
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 ...