In 1970, the first all-female team summited Denali. The new book "Thirty Below" by Cassidy Randall tells this forgotten story ...

“As of Wednesday morning, there are 506 climbers attempting climbs on Denali. So far this season, an additional 117 climbers have come and gone, 17 of whom reached the mountain’s ...

I n June of 1970, amid the snow-covered rock ramparts of Denali (the true name of North America’s highest peak), six women ...

It wasn’t only mountaineering that was off-limits ... A group of women atop the summit of Denali. Women who led the entire climb, carried every load, made every decision. In her mind those ...

Grace herself, though, had never been on the mountain until now. If she made it all the way to the summit of Denali, she would be only the third woman ever to reach the highest point in North ...

Officials with the park said they received a distress call from three mountain climbers on the 20,310-foot summit of Denali — which is the tallest in North America — asking for help on Tuesday ...

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 ...

In 1967, Mount McKinley (Denali) witnessed two pivotal moments ... Another problem could be that the team divided on the mountain after the first summit on July 15. This split the stronger ...

Those incidents along with the one below would spur Grace to develop a bold idea: to lead the first all-women’s team up the great mountain. Two months after Vin Hoeman returned from Denali in ...

In June of 1970, amid the snow-covered rock ramparts of Denali (the true name of North ... they were the first all-women’s team to attempt to summit one of the big mountains of the world.