President-elect Donald Trump has once again suggested he wants to revert the name of North America’s tallest mountain — Alaska’s Denali — to Mount McKinley, wading into a sensitive and decades-old conflict about what the peak should be called. Former President Barack Obama changed the official name to Denali in 2015 to reflect the traditions […]
By Kanishka Singh WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. President-elect Donald Trump said on Sunday he will rename Denali, Alaska natives’ name for North America’s tallest mountain, after William McKinley, the 25th U.S. president who was assassinated in 1901. Democratic former President Barack Obama in 2015 officially renamed the mountain as Denali, siding with the state of […]
Israel wasted no time after Bashar al-Assad’s fall to bomb all the Syrian military assets it wanted to keep out of the rebels’ hands – striking nearly 500 targets, destroying the navy, and taking out, it claims, 90% of Syria’s known surface-to-air missiles. But it is Israel’s capture of Syria’s highest peak, the Mount Hermon […]
Police in New Zealand say they believe three men who went missing days ago on Aoraki Mt Cook – the country’s tallest mountain – are dead. Americans Kurt Blair, 56, and Carlos Romero, 50, and an unnamed Canadian national were reported missing on Monday when they failed to meet their flight out from the mountain. […]
James Gilbert/Getty Images College basketball fans will have to wait one more season to see the world’s tallest teenager in action. Olivier Rioux, a 7-foot-9 freshman for Florida, is planning to redshirt this season, Gators head coach Todd Golden said Thursday, via the Associated Press. Rioux would use one of his four collegiate seasons had […]
Mount Everest is the world’s tallest mountain as measured from sea level. But will it hold that title forever? To answer this question, first we must understand how mountains form and how Mount Everest and the rest of the Himalayas got so tall. One way tall mountains form is when two tectonic plates collide. As […]
