The local Athabaskan Indians reverently called the perpetually snow-covered mountain Denali, "The High One." But in 1896, when the region was still marked as "unexplored" on official maps ...

At 20,320 feet, Mt. McKinley towers 3.5 miles above its river plains in the heart of Alaska's Denali National Park, a 6-million-square-acre area roughly the size of Massachusetts. The mountain's ...