Mount Denali is the third highest mountain peak in world after Mount Everest and Aconcagua.
It is highest peak of North America.
Mount Denali has elevation of 20,30 feet (6,190m) above sea level.
Its former official name was Mount McKinley.
Mount Denali is Located in the Alaska Range in the interior of the U.S. state of Alaska.
Denali is the like ornament of Denali National Park and Preserve and looks very amazing and beautiful.
This peak is reffered as "Denali" which means "The Great One" by the Koyukon people who inhabited this area for centuries.
In 1896, a gold prospector William Dickey who was supporter of then-presidential candidate William McKinley named it "Mount McKinley." This name was officially recognised by US government from 1917 untill 2015. Later on in August 2015 Barack Obama administration changed its name to Denali.
Earlier in 1975 the Alaska Board of Geographic Names changed its name to Denali.
In 1903, the first attempt to climb mount Denali was done by James Wickersham which was unsuccessful attempt
The first successful and verified attempt to climb mount Denali was achieved by climbers Hudson Stuck, Harry Karstens, Walter Harper, and Robert Tatum on June 7, 1913.
The West Buttress route is considered to be the safest and easiest route.
Denali is a pink quartz monzonite, a granitic plutonic rock which is lifted up due to tectonic pressure generated of the subduction of the Pacific Plate beneath the North American Plate.
"McKinley cluster" is a tectonic and seismically active region beneath Denali.
Denali is the northernmost mountain in the world of 20,310 feet (6,190 m) above sea level.
Mount Denali's base-to-peak height is some 18,000 ft (5,500 m), it is among the largest mountains situated entirely above sea level.
If we compare Mount Denali with Mount Everest in terms of base-to-peak height which rises from Tibetan Plateau above 4000-5000 m, Mount Denali's base-to-peak height is more than Mount Everest which is also more than half the 33,500 ft (10,200 m) of the volcanic mountain Mauna Kea, which lies mostly under water.
Denali has two significant peak the North peak and South peak.
South peak is the higher Peak than North peak
The North peak has an elevation of 19,470 ft (5,934 m) is considered as a separate peak.
The North peak is rarely climbed, except by those who are climbing the north side of the massif.
There are five glaciers in flow off the slopes of the mountain.
In the northwest side lies The Peters Glacier, In northeast slopes lies the Muldrow Glacier, In the eastern side is the Traleika Glacier, to the southeast of the mountain lies the Ruth Glacier and to the southwest side of the mountain lies the Kahiltna Glacier.
The longest glacier in the Alaska Range is the Kahiltna Glacier which is of 71 km or 44 mile in length.
When Denali was under Russia its name was Bolshaya Gora means Bolshaya (Big) Gora (Mountain) which is russian translation of Denali.
Frank Densmore, who was gold prospector and non-native Alaskan and first to reach the base of the mountain called it Densmore's Mountain.
In 1965, the north and south peaks of the mountain the is declared as "Churchill Peaks" in the honor of British statesman Winston Churchill by Johnson Lyndon B.
The Koyukon Athabaskans, were the first Native Americans with access to face of the mountain.
George Vancouver a British naval captain and explorer, is the first European on record to have sighted Denali.
Lavrenty Zagoskin Russian explorer the first European to sight the mountain from the other side.
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A 25 cent piece depicting the denali mountain and the denali park was released by the US Mint, in November, 2012
The first woman to reach the summit was Barbara Washburn in 1947 whereas her husband Bradford Washburn was the first person to summit twice
The First solo ascent to mount denali was by Naomi Uemura in 1970
In 1972 Sylvain Saudan, also known as "Skier of the Impossible" first descented on skis down the sheer southwest face of denali.
Anatoli Boukreev has completed Fastest solo speed ascent from west rib in 10 hours and 30 mins from the base to the mountain peak.
There is an automated weather station located at 5,700 meters (18,733 feet) on mount denali which has recorded Temperatures as low as −59.7 °C (−75.5 °F) and wind chills as low as −83.4 °C (−118.1 °F)
The first blind climber to reach the mount is Joan Phelps.
The youngest person to reach the summit is Galen Johnston who ascented the peak in 2001.
The oldest person to reach the summit is Tom Choate 78 years old an Alaska resident who ascented the peak in 2013.
Two global positioning receivers has been placed on the summit by a survey team led by Blaine Horner to determine the precise position and elevation of the peak in June 2015.
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