Mt.McKinley (shared with gmail)

1. Location: Alaska, United States, North America

2. Lat/Lon: 63.06927°N / 151.00777°W

3. Object Title: Denali (Mount McKinley)

4. County: Denali Borough

5. Activities: Mountaineering, Ice Climbing, Mixed, Skiing

6. Season: Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter

6.1. yaaay!!

7. Elevation: 20320 ft / 6194 m

8. Mt. McKinley is also known by its Athabascan name Denali, meaning "The Great One" and some climbers refuse to use "McKinley" when referring to the mountain. In fact, at least half a dozen names exist for the highest mountain in North America and most translate to "The Great One." Americans are the only ones who have previously bucked this trend and named it after a President from Ohio (William McKinley has often been considered a straw President --- put into power by Rockefeller's enormous campaign contributions in order to avoid a then-aspiring Teddy Roosevelt and his party's threat to break up the industrial monoploies with new anti-trust legislation).

9. Denali was renamed Mount McKinley by the Princeton graduate and gold prospector, William Dickey. Dickey was one of the hundreds of prospectors seeking gold in the 1896 Cook Inlet stampede. He had written an article for the New York Sun where he described the mountain as the highest in North America at over 20,000 feet. When later asked why he named the mountain after McKinley, Dickey replied that "the verbal bludgeoning he had received from free silver partisans had inspired him to retaliate with the name of the gold-standard champion" (Source: Mt. McKinley: The Pioneer Climbs by Terris Moore). Since the turn of the 19th century, the official name of this great mountain has not rested in peace. In 1914, following his historic first ascent of the mountain in 1913, Hudson Stuck wrote in the preface of his book " The accents of Denali"

10. Ever since the mountain's name was changed to McKinley, an effort has been under way to change it back to Denali. In 1980, the name Mount McKinley National Park was officially changed to Denali National Park and Preserve. The State of Alaska Board of Geographic Names has also officially changed the mountain's name back to Denali. The State of Alaska now recognizes it as Denali and the Feds have changed the name of the national park. Congress, however, has shown little interest in changing the mountain's name.