Conrad Anker, Jon Krakauer, Melissa Arnot Reid, and other climbers and guides react to President Trump’s renaming of Alaska’s Denali
Trump's decision is being met with resistance, as many Alaska lawmakers, including its two Republican Senators, have voiced opposition to the change.
The president wants to honor a predecessor, William McKinley, by returning his name to North America’s highest peak. The state’s senators prefer the Native name.
President Donald Trump has issued a flurry of executive orders — including one to change the official name of North America's tallest mountain.
President Donald Trump signed an executive order to rename Denali, North America’s tallest peak, back to its former name, Mount McKinley.
The Obama-era change followed decades of requests from Native Alaskan leaders for the mountain’s native name ‘Denali’, a Koyukon Athabaskan word meaning "the tall one," "the high one" or "the great one" to be restored.
In 2015, the name of the peak was changed during the Obama administration to reflect the traditions of Alaska Natives and preference of many Alaskans.
President Donald Trump announced the name of Alaska’s highest peak — and North America’s tallest at over 20,000 feet — Denali, would be changed back to Mount McKinley. Trump was sworn in as the 47th president on Monday,
During his inaugural address, President Donald Trump suggested he wants to revert the name of North America’s tallest mountain — Alaska’s Denali — to Mount McKinley. Here's why:
JUNEAU — Alaska Gov. Mike Dunleavy said Wednesday that he would seek out a conversation with President Donald Trump about his decision to rename Denali, the tallest mountain in the U.S. Trump ordered on Monday to change the name of the peak to Mount McKinley.
The tallest peak in North America has been named Denali since 2015 when its name was officially changed under former President Barack Obama.
Denali: Why is Donald Trump renaming cherished Alaska peak ‘Mount McKinley’? - The 47th president is wading back into a century-long dispute over the name we give to North America’s tallest mountain