In June of 1970, amid the snow-covered rock ramparts of Denali (the true name of North America’s highest peak), six women took their first steps in a historic feat. Led by Alaskan Grace Hoeman and ...

What began as just a way to “seek adventure” for Kunwoo Kim ’15 snowballed into nearly seven months of training and climbing, culminating in reaching the 20,310-foot summit of Denali — the tallest ...

For Brian DeMocker, of McLean, being high means being on a mountaintop above 14,000 feet. Up until this summer, he’d reached that elevation 15 times, mostly in Colorado. But on July 1 of this year, he ...

Before his Denali mapping trip, Nolan had only flown one test flight above 12,000 feet. To map Denali he needed to fly at 23,000 feet, about 1,700 feet about the summit. In a nonpressurized plane at ...

Journalist and author of Thirty Below: The Harrowing and Heroic Story of the First All-Women’s Ascent of Denali Journalist and author of Thirty Below: The Harrowing and Heroic Story of the First ...