President Donald Trump has issued a flurry of executive orders — including one to change the official name of North America's tallest mountain.

President Donald Trump has issued an executive order calling for North America’s tallest peak — Denali in Alaska — to be renamed Mount McKinley.

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

22, 2014. (Bob Hallinen / ADN) After statehood, people in Alaska worked to get the name changed to Denali, but ran into a major barrier: Ohio — the home of former President McKinley. In 1975 ...

King and many others who live in the mountain’s shadow say most Alaskans will never stop calling the peak Denali, its Alaska Native name, despite President Donald Trump’s executive order that the name revert to Mount McKinley — an identifier inspired by President William McKinley, who was from Ohio and never set foot in Alaska.

The dispute went back 40 years, when in 1975 Alaska first expressed its desire to use the local reference to the mountain. Politicians from Ohio, McKinley's home state, held up any movement on the request with regular legislation. McKinley, a Republican ...

Stark County GOP officials enthusiastically back President Donald Trump changing the name of North America's tallest mountain back to Mount McKinley.

The 47th president is wading back into a century-long dispute over the name we give to North America’s tallest mountain

its Alaska Native name, despite President Donald Trump’s executive order that the name revert to Mount McKinley — an identifier inspired by President William McKinley, who was from Ohio and ...

McKinley had never been to Alaska. The name was formally recognized by the U.S. government until it was changed Ohio.">in 2015 by the Obama administration to Denali, to reflect the traditions of ...

its Alaska Native name, despite President Donald Trump’s executive order that the name revert to Mount McKinley-- an identifier inspired by President William McKinley, who was from Ohio and ...

During his inaugural address, President Donald Trump suggested he wants to revert the name of North America’s tallest mountain — Alaska’s Denali — to Mount McKinley. Here's why: