McKinley, Mount
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Denali National Park and Preserve in Alaska, USA. Opened in 1917 as Mount McKinley National Park (North America's highest mountain lies within its 6 million acres/2.4 million ha), this sub-arctic landscape of tundra, waterlogged ground, and permafrost was designated an International Biosphere Reserve in 1976.
Highest peak in North America, situated in the Rocky Mountains, Alaska; height 6,194 m/20,320 ft. It was named after US president William McKinley in 1896.
The summit was first reached in 1913 by the Anglo-American explorer Hudson Stuck and three others, and about 1,000 climbers attempt it each year in the short climbing season. Mount McKinley, called Denali, ‘the high one’, by American Indians (and the state of Alaska), rises in the enlarged and renamed (1980) Denali National Park.
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