Denali National Park and Preserve checks all of the Alaska boxes: unspoiled wilderness, roaming wildlife, massive glaciers and snow-covered peaks. Covering more than 6 million acres and home to ...

But in 1896, when the region was still marked as "unexplored" on official maps ... National Park, had ignored his repeated pleas to return the mountain to its original name: Denali.

This story appears in the February 2016 issue of National Geographic magazine. Park rangers here call the high season—from June through early September, when Denali National Park and Preserve ...