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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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The journey will take him from the minus 30C freeze of the Arctic to the 30C heat of the Peruvian desert and include climbs up the highest peaks in North and South America - Mount McKinley in Alaska and Aconcagua in Argentina.
Cyclist targets twin peaks by Sunday Mercury (Birmingham, England)
Neil McNab and his climbing partner, Andy Perkins, saved an injured Korean climber's life in blizzard-swept Mount McKinley in Alaska.
MEDAL FOR A HERO; Neil's rescue near summit of highest US peak by Huddersfield Daily Examiner (Huddersfield, England)
Hunting ducks, geese, and deer, and fishing for salmon across the state helps McGoldrick experience the beauty of Alaska's wildlife and jumping out of a military CH 47 Chinook helicopter in the middle of winter onto the slopes of Mount McKinley to rescue survivors of a plane crash keeps his adventurous spirit content.
Alaska Memories--Adventures in the Wilds of Alaska by Trout, Kaye / Reviewer's Bookwatch
 
 
 
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