"of Colorado John Hickenlooper. After the 2015 restoration of the original name <q>Denali</q> to Mount McKinley in Alaska, debate over Mount Rainier's name intensified. Mount Rainier is the tallest mountain in Washington and the Cascade Range. This peak is located just east of Eatonville and just southeast of Seattle and Tacoma. Mount Rainier is ranked third of the 128 ultra-prominent mountain peaks of the United States. Mount Rainier has a topographic prominence of , which is greater than that of K2, the world's second-tallest mountain, at . On clear days it dominates the southeastern horizon in most of the Seattle-Tacoma"
"changed the name of the mountain to ""Denali"" in 1975, which was how it is called locally. However, a request in 1975 from the Alaska state legislature to the United States Board on Geographic Names to do the same at the federal level was blocked by Ohio congressman Ralph Regula, whose district included McKinley's hometown of Canton. On August 30, 2015, just ahead of a presidential visit to Alaska, the Barack Obama administration announced the name ""Denali"" would be restored in line with the Alaska Geographic Board's designation. U.S. Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewell issued the order changing the"
"name to Denali on August 28, 2015, effective immediately. Jewell said the change had been ""a long time coming"". The renaming of the mountain received praise from Alaska's senior U.S. senator, Lisa Murkowski, who had previously introduced legislation to accomplish the name change, but it drew criticism from several politicians from President McKinley's home state of Ohio, such as Governor John Kasich, U.S. Senator Rob Portman, U.S. House Speaker John Boehner, and Representative Bob Gibbs, who described Obama's action as ""constitutional overreach"" because he said an act of Congress is required to rename the mountain. The ""Alaska Dispatch News"" reported"
"Denali Denali () (also known as Mount McKinley, its former official name) is the highest mountain peak in North America, with a summit elevation of above sea level. With a topographic prominence of and a topographic isolation of , Denali is the third most prominent and third most isolated peak on Earth, after Mount Everest and Aconcagua. Located in the Alaska Range in the interior of the U.S. state of Alaska, Denali is the centerpiece of Denali National Park and Preserve. The Koyukon people who inhabit the area around the mountain have referred to the peak as ""Denali"" for centuries."
"Jewell also backed a 2016 initiative to expedite permitting for youth organizations to explore public wild lands on overnight or multi-day trips, particularly in less popular parks. On August 28, 2015, Jewell used her authority as Secretary to rename the tallest mountain in North America ""Denali."" The United States federal government had adopted the name Mount McKinley for the peak in 1917 although the Koyukon Athabascan, a group native to Alaska, had traditionally called the peak Denali. President Obama supported Jewell's decision to change the name. As Secretary, Jewell approved the first phase of the Desert Renewable Energy Conservation Plan"
"in the late 1880s and early 1890s after Frank Densmore, an Alaskan prospector who was the first European to reach the base of the mountain. In 1896, a gold prospector named it ""McKinley"" as political support for then-presidential candidate William McKinley, who became president the following year. The United States formally recognized the name Mount McKinley after President Wilson signed the Mount McKinley National Park Act of February 26, 1917. In 1965, Lyndon B. Johnson declared the north and south peaks of the mountain the ""Churchill Peaks"", in honor of British statesman Winston Churchill. The Alaska Board of Geographic Names"
"Up Denali 3D Up Denali 3D is a stereoscopic (3D) documentary directed and produced by Thomas Riederer PE. The film portrays an epic adventure trek and technical summit climb of the highest mountain in North America. The mountain is also known as Mount McKinley. Denali has an altitude of 20,320’ and is one of the Seven Summits of the World. Situated in Alaska, in Denali National Park and Preserve near the Arctic Circle, a June Denali climb is spent entirely without darkness – essentially a single month-long “day”. And being so far North and so high, the entire climb, from"
"Mt. McKinley in Alaska - North America's highest mountain -, Elbrus, the Carstensz Pyramid in Indonesia, Everest, Kilimanjaro, Mont Blanc, the Vinson Massif in Antarctica, where he reached the summit on January 13, 2004, and, to complete the Seven Summits challenge, Aconcagua in Argentina on February 5, 2004. Al Refai is director of the Arabian Mountaineering and Alpine Climbing Club, founded in an attempt to popularise mountain climbing among people in the Middle East. Zed Al Refai Zed ""Zeddy"" Al Refai (born October 28, 1966) is a Kuwaiti climber. He was the first Arab to climb Mount Everest and the"
"approval on October 6, 2014. Final court approval was given on March 9, 2015. MSU’s former Beckley campus was sold to West Virginia University. MSU ceased to exist as a legal entity on May 17, 2018. Mountain State University Mountain State University (MSU) (formerly ""Beckley College"" and later ""The College of West Virginia"") was a private nonsectarian not-for-profit university based in Beckley, West Virginia, United States. The university ceased to operate effective January 1, 2013. All degrees conferred by MSU and its predecessors on or before December 31, 2012, are valid and were received from an accredited institution. MSU was"
"was designated an international biosphere reserve in 1976. A separate Denali National Monument was by President Jimmy Carter on December 1, 1978. The name of Mount McKinley National Park was subject to local criticism from the beginning of the park. The word Denali means ""the high one"" in the native Athabaskan language and refers to the mountain itself. The mountain was named after newly elected US president William McKinley in 1897 by local prospector William A. Dickey. The United States government formally adopted the name Mount McKinley after President Wilson signed the bill creating Mount McKinley National Park into effect"
"since January 2009 and will complete the expedition by setting foot on the top of Mount Denali (also known as Mount McKinley), Alaska. Mount Denali (McKinley) is located in Denali National Park and Preserve. On July 2008, Pungkas Tri Baruno (20) from all Indonesian Scout Team has collapsed and died on Mount Denali. Mount Denali is the last of the world's Seven Summits the team will try to conquer. It is widely considered more challenging than taking on Mount Everest. Indonesia Youth and Sports Minister has seen the team and said he was proud of the achievements of the Indonesian"
"Geographic Names officially changed the mountain's name from ""Harney Peak"" to ""Black Elk Peak"" on August 11, 2016, by a unanimous vote of 12–0, with one abstention. On August 18, 2016, Gov. Daugaard announced that the state would accept the new name. Hinhan Kaga and the Black Hills were protected within the Great Sioux Reservation established by the United States government in the Treaty of Fort Laramie in 1868; it covered most of the territory west of the Missouri River in South Dakota (the area now called West River). American settlement was concentrated east of the river, where there was"
"McKinley, after William McKinley of Ohio, who had been nominated for the Presidency, and that fact was the first news we received on our way out of that wonderful wilderness."" By most accounts, the naming was politically driven; Dickey had met many silver miners who zealously promoted Democratic presidential candidate William Jennings Bryan's ideal of a silver standard, inspiring him to retaliate by naming the mountain after a strong proponent of the gold standard. In a United States Geological Survey (USGS) report in 1900, Josiah Edward Spurr refers to ""the giant mountain variously known to Americans as Mount Allen, Mount"
"National Park and Preserve. This center serves as the center of mountaineering operations. It is open year-round. The Denali Wilderness is a wilderness area within Denali National Park and Preserve that protects the higher elevations of the central Alaska Range, including Denali. The wilderness comprises about one-third of the current national park and preserve— that correspond with the former park boundaries from 1917 to 1980. Denali National Park and Preserve is located in the central area of the Alaska Range, a mountain chain extending across Alaska. Its best-known geologic feature is Denali, formerly known as Mount McKinley. Its elevation of"
"Mount McKinley (Denali), the highest mountain in North America and one of the Seven Summits. Darack succeeded in climbing McKinley, via the West Buttress route, on June 29, 1991 when he was 20 years old, possibly the youngest to make a solo ascent of the mountain. ""6194"", endorsed by Galen Rowell, was nominated for the Boardman Tasker Prize for Mountain Literature in 1995. Darack has written articles for a number of different magazines, including ""Air & Space / Smithsonian"", ""Weatherwise Magazine"" (for which he is a contributing editor), ""Alpinist Magazine"", ""Leatherneck Magazine"", ""The Marine Corps Gazette"", ""Proceedings"" of the United"
"were eventually superseded by the North American Aerospace Defense Command (or NORAD), and the base in Bellefontaine was closed in 1969. The Ohio Hi-Point Vocational-Technical District opened a school atop the hill in 1974, now known as the Ohio Hi-Point Career Center. A petition to rename Campbell Hill after former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin appeared on the White House's Web site in 2015; it was an attempt to satirize the Department of the Interior's decision to change the name of Alaska's Mount McKinley back to Denali that year. Campbell Hill (Ohio) Campbell Hill is, at , the highest point in"
"week of September 2015, President Barack Obama announced the renaming of the mountain. Numerous Indigenous peoples of the area had their own names for this prominent peak. The local Koyukon Athabaskan name for the mountain, the name used by the Indigenous Americans with access to the flanks of the mountain (living in the Yukon, Tanana and Kuskokwim basins), is ""Dinale"" or ""Denali"" or ). To the South the Dena'ina people in the Susitna River valley used the name ""Dghelay Ka'a"" (""the big mountain""), anglicized as ""Doleika"" or ""Traleika"" in Traleika Glacier). The historical first European sighting of Denali took place"
"it has been listed on the National Register of Historic Places. Harry Karstens Henry Peter ""Harry"" Karstens (September 2, 1878 – November 28, 1955) was the first superintendent of Mount McKinley National Park (now known as Denali National Park), from 1921 to 1928. He was the guide and climbing leader of the first complete ascent of Denali (Mount McKinley) in 1913, with expedition members Hudson Stuck, Episcopal Archdeacon of the Yukon and Arctic; Walter Harper, and Robert Tatum. John Fredson was one of two young Gwich'in Alaska Natives who supported the party. Harry Karstens was born in Chicago, Illinois on"
"In the early 1870s, it was confused with Mount Whitney by early climbers, and called by this name. When the mistake was realized, the peak was alternately called Mount Corcoran, Cirque Peak, or Sheep Mountain; the former two names being later attached to other mountains. But its current name became established in local usage, and was made official by the Board on Geographic Names in 1943. Mount Langley is one of the easiest of California's fourteeners to climb. A hiking trail starts at nearby Horseshoe Meadow, at an elevation of about , passes scenic Cottonwood Lakes, and climbs through New"
"socialite Sandy Hill Pittman. 1987 1989 1990 1991 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 In May 1990, Boukreev was invited by an American climber to guide several clients to the summit of Denali in Alaska. Denali, previously known as Mount McKinley, has challenges such as hidden crevasses and unpredictably cold weather due to its proximity to the Arctic Circle and the ocean. The expedition was a success and the team reached the summit and returned without incident. During the climb there had been somewhat of a language barrier and Boukreev felt the sting of needing to borrow equipment due to his"
"Mountain State University Mountain State University (MSU) (formerly ""Beckley College"" and later ""The College of West Virginia"") was a private nonsectarian not-for-profit university based in Beckley, West Virginia, United States. The university ceased to operate effective January 1, 2013. All degrees conferred by MSU and its predecessors on or before December 31, 2012, are valid and were received from an accredited institution. MSU was previously listed as one of the best universities in the Southeast by The Princeton Review. The school had also been named a Military Friendly school by G.I. Jobs. The University of Charleston established campuses on MSU's"
"Fort McKinley (Maine) Fort McKinley is a former United States Army coastal defense fort on Great Diamond Island, Maine in Casco Bay, which operated from 1873 to 1947. It was named for President William McKinley. It included a sub-post, Fort Lyon, on Cow Island, just north of Great Diamond Island. Fort Lyon was named for Nathaniel Lyon. Both forts were part of the Coast Defenses of Portland, renamed the Harbor Defenses of Portland in 1925, a command which protected Portland's port and naval anchorage 1895-1950. In 1946 Fort Lyon was closed and turned over to the City of Portland. After"
"Ray Genet Ray Genet (July 27, 1931 – October 2, 1979), often referred to by the nickname Pirate, was a Swiss-born American mountaineer. He was the first guide on North America's highest mountain, Alaska's Denali (Mount McKinley). Genet is the grandfather of actress Q'Orianka Kilcher. Genet's association with Denali began in 1967, when, although he had no previous mountaineering experience, he participated in the first successful winter expedition to Denali's summit, led by Gregg Blomberg. The expedition is described in ""Minus 148 Degrees: The First Winter Ascent of Mount McKinley"" (1970) by Art Davidson. Genet died on October 2, 1979"
"Denali State Park Denali State Park is a state park in the U.S. state of Alaska. It is located in the Matanuska-Susitna Borough adjacent to the east side of Denali National Park and Preserve, along the Parks Highway. The park is undeveloped wilderness with the exception of the two day-use areas, three campgrounds, and two trailheads accessible from the Parks Highway. Denali State Park is a 325,240 acres State Park in Alaska [1](Alaska). It is located on the south eastern border of Denali National Park and Preserve formerly known as Mt. McKinley National Park, a much larger and more popular"
"Mount McKay Mount McKay is a mafic sill located south of Thunder Bay, Ontario, Canada, on the Indian Reserve of the Fort William First Nation. It is the highest, most northern and best known of the Nor'Wester Mountains. It formed during a period of magmatic activity associated with the large Midcontinent Rift System about 1,100 million years ago. McKay was originally known as the ""Thunder Mountain"" (""Animikii-wajiw"" in the Ojibwe language and locally written as ""Anemki-waucheu""). The mountain is used by the Ojibwe for sacred ceremonies. Only with the construction of the road were non-First Nations allowed on this land."
"2012 he summited Mount McKinley (Denali) in Alaska. Later that year he made his first attempt at climbing Mount Everest, again as part of the Walking With The Wounded team. However, treacherous conditions forced the team to abandon their attempt before reaching the summit. Hewitt is currently leading the Adaptive Grand Slam team on its attempt to be the first disabled team to reach the North and South Poles and to scale the highest mountain on all seven continents. As of November 2014, the North Pole, Mt McKinley (North America) and Mt Elbrus (Europe) had been summited and the team"
"red appearance, but the date when this name was adopted has not been cited. Another peak west of Overlord Mountain was identified as Red Mountain on a 1923 sketch by Canadian mountaineer Neal M. Carter. To avoid confusion, the name of this mountain was changed to Fissile Peak on September 2, 1930 for its fissility. In 1927, Canadian volcanologist William Henry Mathews (1919–2003) identified Mount Price as Clinker Mountain in articles and journals. The name Mount Price was adopted on September 2, 1930 after a committee of the Garibaldi Park Board was set up to deal with nomenclature. It was"
"legislation by the President of the United States, Woodrow Wilson, thereby creating Mount McKinley National Park. A portion of Denali, excluding the summit, was included the original park boundary. On Thanksgiving Day in 1921, the Mount McKinley Park Hotel opened. In July 1923, President Warren Harding stopped at the hotel, on a tour of the length of the Alaska Railroad, during which he drove a golden spike signaling its completion at Nenana. The hotel was the first thing visitors saw stepping down from the train. The flat-roofed, two-story log building featured exposed balconies, glass windows, and electric lights. Inside were"
"Mount McKinley. In 1939 the Bureau of Fisheries established an encampment at the Brooks Lake outlet, having previously blasted out part of the falls in 1921. At about the same time the Park Service became concerned about illegal trapping in the monument, asking the Alaska Fish and Game Commission to send wardens to patrol the area. Several trappers were apprehended, and Park Service personnel visited the monument, sending back positive reports on the scenery and wildlife. These reports, and efforts to make poaching more difficult, led to another boundary adjustment that included the islands in the Shelikof Strait and Cook"
"Mount Institute Mount Institute, 1,538 ft., is a peak located in Hawley, Massachusetts, just south of the village of Charlemont. Mount Institute was named by Horace Mann when he had an educational institute in Charlemont that overlooked the mountain. In 1953, Arthur Parker started a small ski area called Thunder Mountain on the northwestern slope. The rope tow served ski area would by closed by 1954. Parker reopened a greatly expanded Thunder Mountain Ski Area in 1961, served by a double chairlift. Thunder Mountain Ski Area was renamed Berkshire East Ski Resort at the end of the 1960s. Berkshire East"
"expressed uncertainty about Wickwire's ever climbing at high altitudes again. Nevertheless, Wickwire continued high-altitude climbing a couple of years later, climbing the slopes of Alaska’s Mount McKinley in preparation for his climbing expedition on Mount Everest. In 1981, Wickwire was traversing a glacier on Mount McKinley (now known as Denali), with 25-year-old Mount Rainier guide Chris Kerrebrock in the lead. They were roped together and dragging a sled. Glaciers often have deep crevasses, which can be concealed by thin layers of snow. A crevasse opened up beneath Kerrebrock who fell in headfirst, pulling Wickwire and the sled in on top"
"by the oversnow traverse party from Byrd Station to the Sentinel Range, 1957–58, led by C.R. Bentley who proposed the name. Named after George R. Toney, scientific leader at Byrd Station in 1957, a participant in several Antarctic and Arctic operations, serving in both field and administrative capacities. Toney Mountain Toney Mountain is an elongated snow-covered shield volcano, 60 km (38 mi) long and rising to 3,595 m in Richmond Peak, located 56 km (35 mi) SW of Kohler Range in Marie Byrd Land, Antarctica. Toney Mountain is an elongated volcanic massif that rises from a basaltic plateau. A 3"
"and Jones claimed a record as the youngest British summiteer of North America's highest peak. Mount McKinley was his first of the seven continental summits, and Jones then climbed the other six over a 3-year period. Mount McKinley, Alaska. N. America. June Summit 2003 Aconcagua, Argentina. S. America. Attempt Dec 2003 Kilimanjaro, Tanzania. Africa. Summit Jan 2004 Aconcagua, Argentina. S. America. Summit Jan 2005 Mount Elbrus, Russia. Europe. Summit July 2005 Kosciusko, Australia. Australasia. Summit Nov 2005 Mount Vinson, Antarctica. Summit Dec 2005 Mount Everest, Nepal. Asia. Summit May 2006 The Everest climb was in aid of the Wessex Heartbeat"