Conrad Anker, Jon Krakauer, Melissa Arnot Reid, and other prominent climbers and guides share their thoughts on the president’s decision to rename North America’s highest mountain

The President's order to rename Denali, North America's highest peak, back to Mount McKinley does not agree with Alaska senator.

The move, the 47th president says, will ‘restore the name of a great president’ to ‘Mount McKinley, where it should be and where it belongs.’

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Trump, who took office for a second time Monday, said he planned to “restore the name of a great president, William McKinley, to Mount McKinley, where it should be and where it belongs.

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Many Alaskans say they’ll never stop calling the mountain Denali. That name respects the Indigenous people who’ve lived in its shadows for thousands of years. But Ohioans think McKinley “was a great president.

Fury at Trump’s ‘insulting’ plan to rename North America’s tallest peak - ‘I’m surprised he doesn’t want to name it Trump Mountain’

Alaskans say they will never stop calling the peak Denali despite President Trump's executive order that the name revert to Mt. McKinley.

As part of a torrent of decisions he issued hours after taking office, President Donald Trump declared that the name of America’s tallest mountain be changed from Denali to Mount McKinley, and that the Gulf of Mexico be renamed “The Gulf of America.”

The man after whom Trump wants to rename North America's highest peak had no connection to Alaska or Denali. So what is the story? Trump thinks he "deserves" it.