An exclusive excerpt from ‘Thirty Below’ remembers the women who made history on the mountain our president insists on ...

Grace Hoeman was one of the best mountaineers of the 1960s, but male-dominated climbing groups refused to let her join. When ...

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

In 1970, they became the first group of women to reach the top of the Alaskan mountain — but the odds were against them ...

“Native Alaskans were calling it Denali for thousands of years before anybody else came here. In the climbing community, it’s almost universal—I almost never hear anybody call it McKinley.

Climbing the highest mountain in North America is a long haul, especially when you’re marooned at advanced base camp for 13 nights. But, for Alex Shockley, the option of going up wasn’t so ...

DENALI BOROUGH, Alaska — Chris Noel is the ... To commemorate the anniversary of that climb, another group of four ascended in 2013. Sam Alexander, an associate professor of the Gwich’in ...

This Denali climb was not only a historic first. It became an improbable tale of survival. And yet the feat escaped widespread notice and disappeared from our collective consciousness. In 1970 ...