After this, the name Mount McKinley was signed into law. Then, in 1975, the s tate of Alaska made a petition to the U.S. Board on Geographic Names to change the name.

The federal government officially recognized the mountain, which stands at a staggering 20,310 feet, as Mount McKinley in 1917. Before then, Indigenous groups had their own names for it, ...

President Donald Trump issued an executive order calling for North America’s tallest peak — Denali in Alaska — to be renamed Mount McKinley. He also called for changing the name of the Gulf ...

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.

On his first day in office, Trump signed an executive order to revert the name of Mount Denali to Mount McKinley. AP An Interior spokesperson, J. Elizabeth Peace, earlier this week said the agency ...

In his speech, Trump said McKinley "made our country very rich through tariffs and our talents." In the following years, controversy arose regarding changing the mountain's name to Denali, which ...

The danger of avalanches 06:48. A skier died after being caught in an avalanche on Alaska's Mount McKinley, officials said Wednesday — just days after a climber fell 3,000 feet to his death on ...

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 ...

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.

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.

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 ...