President Donald Trump has issued a flurry of executive orders — including one to change the official name of North America's tallest mountain.
Conrad Anker, Jon Krakauer, Melissa Arnot Reid, and other climbers and guides react to President Trump’s renaming of Alaska’s Denali
President Donald Trump signed an executive order to rename Denali, North America’s tallest peak, back to its former name, Mount McKinley.
President William McKinley may never have set foot in Alaska but one of President Donald Trump’s first executive actions upon reentering the White House was to reestablish its most famous mountain — North America’s tallest — as McKinley’s namesake.
President Donald Trump has issued an executive order calling for North America’s tallest peak — Denali in Alaska — to be renamed Mount McKinley.
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,
Alaska's top lawmakers oppose Trump's plan to rename Denali back to Mount McKinley, advocating for the name that honors the region's Indigenous heritage.
Trump's proposal reignites a long-standing debate over geographic names and cultural significance. After President Donald Trump announced that his administration will soon change the name of ...
The US Department of the Interior has officially renamed the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America and Denali in Alaska to Mount McKinley.In a statement, the department stated
The state of Alaska requested the name change in 1975, but the Board on Geographic Names didn’t take action. Members of the Ohio congressional delegation – President William McKinley was from Ohio – objected over many years to requests to rename the mountain, and the board did not act on those requests.
The Trump administration has renamed the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America and Denali to Mount McKinley. The Trump administration has made headlines with the announcement of two major name changes to prominent US landmarks.