Michele Stevens, daughter of Carola June Young, proposed naming the peak “Mount Carola” to honor her mother, and the proposal ...

JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) — A skier died after being caught in an avalanche on North America's tallest peak, officials said Wednesday — the second death of this year's climbing season on Alaska's Mount ...

The United States is in the midst of a place-renaming moment. From the renaming of the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America, ...

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.

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.

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.

Mount McKinley is the tallest mountain in North America at 20,310 feet high, according to park officials. President Donald Trump recently changed its name from Denali. June 11, 2025 at 2:01 PM.

While most of the 433 climbers on McKinley are going up the normal route, one young American has made the first solo of the highly technical Slovak Direct.

FILE – A view of one of the faces of North America’s tallest peak, then-named Mount McKinley, in Denali National Park and Preserve, Alaska, Aug. 27, 2014. (AP Photo/Becky Bohrer, File) ...