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The Denali Wilderness is a wilderness area within Denali National Park that protects the higher elevations of the central Alaska Range, including Denali. The wilderness comprises about one-third of the current national park and preserve—2,146,580 acres (3,354 sq mi; 8,687 km 2 ) that correspond with the former park boundaries before 1980.
Mt. McKinley Weather Station; Denali at SummitPost; Timeline of Denali climbing history, National Park Service Archived July 5, 2007, at the Wayback Machine; The Ascent of Denali (Mount McKinley) at Project Gutenberg; Mount Mckinley Quadrangle Publications, Alaska Division of Geological & Geophysical Surveys
The expedition's application to climb the mountain was met with skepticism from the National Park Service at Denali National Park and Preserve due to the climbers' inexperience in high altitude. While all members of the team were familiar with basic mountaineering practices, none had ascended a peak higher than 15,000 feet (4,600 m), while ...
Five members of Congress had come to Alaska to see the subtle effects of a warming climate. ... Jul. 15—DENALI NATIONAL PARK AND PRESERVE — On a gravel road that cuts through one of America's ...
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Mount Silverthrone is 13,220 ft (4,030 m) glaciated mountain summit located in Denali National Park and Preserve, in the Alaska Range, in the U.S. state of Alaska. It is situated 10.8 mi (17 km) east of Denali. The first ascent of this peak was made April 12, 1945, by Norman Bright and Frank P. Foster.
View of the mountain, centerpiece of Denali National Park and Preserve. The name of the highest mountain in North America became a subject of dispute in 1975, when the Alaska Legislature asked the U.S. federal government to officially change its name from "Mount McKinley" to "Denali".
The Mount McKinley National Park Headquarters District in Alaska, United States, in what is now called Denali National Park was the original administrative center of the park. It contains an extensive collection of National Park Service Rustic structures, primarily designed by the National Park Service's Branch of Plans and Designs in the 1930s.