In 1970, the first all-female team summited Denali. The new book "Thirty Below" by Cassidy Randall tells this forgotten story ...

Had they taken on all the responsibility? No, Arlene could not go. Women could not climb Denali, he said. It was impossible. It seemed she wasn’t going to Alaska at all this summer. Denali might ...

The women who stood on top of Denali in July of 1970 and weathered the storms to return alive were not mythological heroes. Nor should they have to be. They were real people, with their own ...

I n June of 1970, amid the snow-covered rock ramparts of Denali (the true name of North America’s highest peak), six women ...

This Denali climb was not only a historic first. It became an improbable tale of survival. And yet the feat escaped widespread notice and disappeared from our collective consciousness. In 1970 ...

Grace Hoeman was one of the best mountaineers of the 1960s, but male-dominated climbing groups refused to let her join. When ...

But that fact, much like the historic Denali climb, has gone largely unsung. Stories of failure often resonate more loudly as proof of whatever narrative it serves the dominant population to ...

And so, in the kind of random act that so often accompanies the colonial naming of geographic “discoveries,” Dickey and his comrades decided to bestow the name McKinley upon the huge peak. It caught ...

A squad of climbers, steeled by ascents in the Tetons, made a historic Himalayan climb in 1963, even after the mountain ...

Read More: Imposter Syndrome Isn’t a Personal Flaw. It’s a Systemic Issue But that fact, much like the historic Denali climb, has gone largely unsung. Stories of failure often resonate more ...