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 ...

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

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

Sen. Dan Sullivan says he will seek a waiver to a law that requires cruise ships to stop in Canada after the president ...

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

Lisa Roderick spent 22 years managing Denali Basecamp on the Kahiltna Glacier, acting as flight control for glacier pilots, weather reporter, first responder and more. Lisa Roderick spent 22 years ...

The new itineraries give guests more opportunities to discover national parks, including Glacier Bay, Denali, Wrangell St. Elias, Kenai Fjords and Katmai. Following the successful launch of the 15 ...

Which was no small feat. The summit of Denali scrapes the Alaskan sky at 20,310 feet, towering from a moat of convoluted glaciers like a temple of ice and stone. It’s not the tallest peak on ...

Trash could pile up, roads and trails could go unmaintained, and visitor center hours and facilities could see reduced hours, ...

WE’VE all stayed in nice hotels with your classic beach views – but there are some we visit for their weird factor alone.

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

Denali is a Koyukon Athabascan word that means ... from the coasts and changing traditional relationships with land. In Glacier Bay National Park, also in southeastern Alaska, “Sitakaday ...