Climbing to the top of the tallest mountain in America is a truly herculean task that requires extreme dedication. Here's ...

Jun. 1—One climber stranded near the summit of Denali since Tuesday was rescued by helicopter Friday morning, the National Park Service said, but his climbing partner died awaiting rescue and his ...

Update, 8 a.m. Friday: Aerial efforts to reach two climbers stranded near Denali's summit were starting to resume early Friday. Denali National Park and Preserve spokesman Paul Ollig said a crew was ...

Thinking back to his month-long expedition to the summit of Alaska’s Denali last summer, Pat Gephart estimates there were at least 200 people on the megamountain along with him and his Summit County ...

Nine days out from a third attempt at a winter ascent of Denali in Alaska, Lonnie Dupre is about ready to leave his training spot in Summit County and head north to the land of dark days and tall, ...

A 48-year-old climber from New Jersey died during a Denali summit attempt Friday evening, according to a news release from the National Park Service. The man, identified as Fernando Birman, collapsed ...

Summit Denali was hoping to find out the fate of its high school campus, but students and teachers will have to wait a few months longer to secure a location. The Sunnyvale Planning Commission Dec. 10 ...

Aaron Pessah sat on a leather couch in a roomy Anchorage hostel earlier this week. The skin around his nostrils was red, tender, blistered. As he trekked up and down Denali for two weeks, he wiped ...

There are 135 sixth graders working in a Silicon Valley office park this fall. They attend Summit Denali, Summit Public Schools’ sixth school and first foray into the middle grades. The innovative Bay ...

Imagine a school where a skillbuilding playlist prepares students to engage in projects that matter. It’s not science fiction; it’s Summit Denali, a high school opening in Sunnyvale California in ...

The climber’s guides helped with the recovery of Birman’s body from the 19,500-foot plateau known as the Football Field. Birman’s body was then transferred to the State of Alaska medical examiner late ...