The "decision to return to the McKinley name" for Alaska's mountain is a "slap in the face of recent efforts to acknowledge ...

And so, in the kind of random act that so often accompanies the colonial naming of geographic “discoveries,” Dickey and his comrades decided to bestow the name McKinley upon the huge peak. It caught ...

The rugged Iditarod started Monday, but a dearth of snow has forced the iconic dog sled race to start further north and added a new route that allows mushers to bypass barren land, but lengthens by ...

The 2025 Iditarod race, which normally begins in Anchorage, Alaska, will begin at an alternate location this year due to a lack of snow. The main reason for the relocation to Fairbanks is the ...

Thirty-three mushers plan to start the world's most famous sled dog race, the Iditarod in Alaska, on March 3 ... here or currently living here. Quince Mountain, who is entering the race for ...

up Mount Boucansaud in the Revelation Mountains, Alaska. Banking on their success on Cerro Murallón in Patagonia in December 2012, in mid-March this year an international team of alpinists comprised ...

Alaska State Troopers said the skiers had all come from other states to the mountain near Girdwood, close to Alaska's largest resort, Alyeska. A spokeswoman for Chugach Powder Guides, which took ...

nps.gov One mountain climber is dead and another is injured after the two-person team fell 1,000 feet while climbing in Alaska on April 25. According to a press release from the National Park ...