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

Scientists warn that the Alaska volcano Mount Spurr is likely to erupt soon, showering ash on Anchorage and potentially ...

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

Jessie Holmes, a former reality television star, won the longest-ever Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race on Friday, celebrating ...

The United States, often celebrated for its vastness and diversity, is a land of remarkable contrasts and hidden gems that ...

Former reality TV star Jessie Holmes won the 53rd Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race on Friday, March 14, ending a run that was as ...

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 ...

Jessie Holmes was the first musher to depart from the White Mountain checkpoint Thursday, leaving at 4:54 p.m., and was on ...

A 37-year-old man died after falling from a chairlift that was having a mechanical problem at a Montana ski area, according ...

ALASKA (WBAY) - An update from the Iditarod dog sled race in Alaska. A Wisconsin resident, Quince Mountain, of Mountain, has been withdrawn from the race after nine days. Ten other participants have ...

Holmes had a three-hour lead over his closest competitor, Matt Hall, who said he had stopped trying to catch up.