20 Winter 2020 LOCALadk Magazine
LOCALadk
Epic Journey:
Denali 1974
By Michael Virtanen
With photos by Wayne Failing & Geoff Bleakley
We want to recognize that McKinley was officially renamed Denali on August 30, 2015 under the Obama
Administration. The indigenous Athabascan people originally called it Denali which means "the high
one" in their native language. - Eds
