Alaskan senator wants to rename America's tallest mountain
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}Alaskans have an unconventional way of spelling Mt. McKinley, North America's tallest peak that rests in the south of the Last Frontier.
D-e-n-a-l-i.
The official name of the 20,237-foot mountain inside Denali National Park is Mt. McKinley, according to the U.S. Board on Geographic Names. But to Alaskans, (ambitious) mountain-climbers and the 11 indigenous tribes that make up the Athabascan people, it's Denali. Period.
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}Sen. Lisa Murkowski will attempt to push legislation through the Energy and Natural Resources Committee she heads Wednesday to change the mountain's name to Mt. Denali.