For months, Oscar McHugh and his father Dan had their sights set on Denali, the highest mountain peak in North America. The pair has been mountaineering for years. They frequently backpack in the ...

Subaru Takeda, Genya Takenaka, and Toranosuke Nagayama take a selfie while climbing a route on Denali. (Courtesy of Subaru Takeda) Toranosuke Nagayama and his two climbing partners spent more than two ...

One stranded climber was rescued from Denali in Alaska on Friday but a second had died two days earlier in a snow cave, Denali National Park officials said. The climbers had been stranded near the ...

Two mountaineers who are also University of Alaska Fairbanks students were successful in their attempt to reach the top of North America’s highest peak this summer. On June 7, while they were standing ...

Lonnie Dupre of Grand Marais knows full well what he's getting into. In the next few weeks, he hopes to become the first person on Earth to reach the summit of Alaska's Denali (Mount McKinley) on a ...

A 52-year-old woman died and her climbing partner was seriously injured after they fell approximately 1,000 feet off of a mountain in Denali National Park in Alaska, officials said. The incident ...

In 1970, a team of six women climbed to the top of Denali — and, significantly, made it safely back down. This little-known expedition has finally been exceedingly well researched and told by author ...