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

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

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 ...

Grace Hoeman was one of the best mountaineers of the 1960s, but male-dominated climbing groups refused to let her join. When ...

Had they taken on all the responsibility? No, Arlene could not go. Women could not climb Denali, he said. It was impossible. It seemed she wasn’t going to Alaska at all this summer. Denali might ...

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

Courtesy Image Cassidy Randall's new book, Thirty Below, tells the story of the first all-women expedition to climb Denali. Popular belief held that women were incapable of withstanding high ...

Boggy tundra, thick boreal forest, and great braided rivers stymied early mountaineers seeking to climb Denali — and that was before they even reached the sawtooth rank of formidable peaks ...

DENALI BOROUGH, Alaska — Chris Noel is the ... To commemorate the anniversary of that climb, another group of four ascended in 2013. Sam Alexander, an associate professor of the Gwich’in ...

Sri Lankan mountaineer Johann Peries is just one summit away from completing the world’s most coveted mountaineering ...