Mount Denali
North America's peak
Mount Denali is the highest peak in North America, rising 20,310 feet in the Alaska Range.
The mountain was officially called Mount McKinley from 1917 until 2015, when the federal government restored the Alaska Native name meaning "the high one." Climbers and Alaskans often simply call it Denali: We could see Denali from Anchorage on clear days.
- McKinleyScottish-Irish surname
- AlaskaAmerica's frozen northwest
- summitPeak or diplomatic gathering
- summit bidEffort to reach peak
- peakUtmost height attained
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- AlaskaFairbanks, Juneau, Sitka, Kodiak, Nome
- American LandformsGrand Canyon, Rockies, Appalachians, Great Plains, Great Lakes
- High Altitudealtitude sickness, thin air, hypoxia, oxygen deprivation, acclimatization
- peakspeak, summit, mountaintop, pinnacle, apex
Mount DenaliDeath Valley
Below-sea-level California desert
Mariana Trench · Dead Sea · Challenger Deep · oceanic trench · Grand Canyon
Mount DenaliSahara Desert
Massive North African arid region
Death Valley · Arabian Desert · Amazon Rainforest · Congo Basin · Amazon basin
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