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, six climbers set out to summit Denali in the first all-women’s attempt at any of the world’s big mountains. Their ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

The Alaska climbing season is almost around the corner. Contracts need to be signed in March, and the hiring process for public jobs is long. Denali, recently renamed Mount McKinley, is the best ...

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 ...

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 ...