Most Alaskans will never stop calling the peak Denali, its Alaska Native name, despite President Donald Trump’s executive order that the name revert to Mount McKinley — an identifier inspired ...

President Trump is moving to change the name of Alaska’s tallest peak back to McKinley. Some 95% of respondents to our question want him to back off.

Over the decades, people in Alaska have called it both Denali and Mount McKinley, said Sondra Shaginoff-Stuart, an associate professor of Alaska Native studies at the University of Alaska Anchorage.

Alaska's U.S. senators in 2017 vehemently opposed a prior suggestion by Trump that the name Denali be changed back to Mount McKinley. By The Associated Press • Published January 20, 2025 ...

Another McKinley fan Denali is seen from the Petersville area on Oct. 23, 2016. (Loren Holmes / Alaska Dispatch News) Trump first floated the idea of renaming Denali as Mount McKinley in a White ...

Topline. President Donald Trump signed an executive order Monday renaming Denali—the highest peak in North America—to Mount McKinley, the Alaska mountain’s name prior to 2015, a move he has ...

Some groups in Alaska say they will continue to refer to the country's highest mountain as Denali, despite an executive order changing the name to Mount McKinley.

The body of a climber who was ascending Alaska's Mount McKinley, also known as Denali, has been found two days after he fell approximately 3,000 feet, the National Park Service said.. Alex Chiu ...

Seattle man dies in 3,000-foot fall on Mount McKinley The top of where the avalanche released was at approximately 16,600 feet (5,060 meters) and ran down to about 15,000 feet (4,572 meters), the ...

Seattle man Alex Chiu died after falling 3,000 feet while ski mountaineering on Mount McKinley's West Buttress route in Denali National Park, Alaska, the National Park Service said.

Alex Chiu died after he fell 3,000 feet from Alaska’s Mount McKinley. The 41-year-old man wasn’t wearing a rope during the incident. Two mountaineers on the excursion with Chiu witnessed him fall.

Nicholas Vizzini, 29, dies in an avalanche while descending Alaska’s Mount McKinley, marking the second fatality this climbing season. Skip Navigation Share on Facebook ...