Highest peak in North America, situated in the
Rocky Mountains, Alaska; height 6,194 m/20,320 ft. It was named after US president William McKinley in 1896.
The summit was first reached in 1913 by the Anglo-American explorer Hudson Stuck and three others, and about 1,000 climbers attempt it each year in the short climbing season. Mount McKinley, called Denali, the high one, by American Indians (and the state of Alaska), rises in the enlarged and renamed (1980) Denali National Park.
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