Denali—Koyukon Athabaskan for “The High One”—is the highest mountain in North America. Up here in the Great Land, Denali is remarkable even among the vastness of this big, mostly wild state. It dominates the skyline for hundreds of miles around. In the image leading this story, taken by my wife, Denali is about 150 miles away, and you can see how it still dominates the horizon.
Lately, Denali has become something of a political football – or, at least, the name has become so. President-elect Donald Trump is talking about changing the mountain’s name back to Mount McKinley, which he can do. But does he have a reason he’s not mentioning? Must Read Alaska’s Suzanne Downing thinks he might be proposing the change to tweak Alaska’s Princess Lisa Murkowski.
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