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 ...

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

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 ...

It wasn’t only mountaineering that was off-limits ... A group of women atop the summit of Denali. Women who led the entire climb, carried every load, made every decision. In her mind those ...

Those incidents along with the one below would spur Grace to develop a bold idea: to lead the first all-women’s team up the great mountain. Two months after Vin Hoeman returned from Denali in ...

DENALI BOROUGH, Alaska — Chris Noel ... Hamm came to Alaska in 1997 to climb to the mountain’s sky-reaching summit — an experience he described as like “being on the moon.” ...

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

Covering more than 6 million acres and home to the highest mountain in North America, Denali is the rugged last frontier in all its splendor. The park is open year-round, but there are only two ...

Grace herself, though, had never been on the mountain until now. If she made it all the way to the summit of Denali, she would be only the third woman ever to reach the highest point in North ...