Denali, North America’s highest mountain ... For comparison, over 800 climbers summit Everest every year. Thousands more trek to basecamp to provide support for climbing parties, make their ...

Guide Melissa Arnot Reid, the first American woman to ascend and descend Everest without supplemental oxygen, said that precolonial names such as Denali enhance a visitor’s connection to a place.

Everest, Jim Thorpe and Mt. McKinley. We should have kept Mauch Chunk, and without question we should have kept the native moniker for North America’s finest mountain: Mount Denali! I hope that ...