It typically takes the average person, going up Denali via the popular West Buttress route, 15 to 26 days to complete. Climbers go "in an up-down pattern, up the mountain, then acclimatize and ...

Once Miller had summited Denali the first time, via the West Buttress route, he wasn’t sure if he was going to climb Denali a second time this season.

Just days earlier, 41-year-old Alex Chiu of Seattle, Washington, died after a 3,000-foot fall from the West Buttress climbing route onto the Peters Glacier.

A skier died after being caught in an avalanche on North America's tallest peak, officials said Wednesday — the second death of this year's climbing season on Alaska's Mount McKinley.

Denali National Park has confirmed that 29 year old Nicholas Vizzini of Washington state passed away in a soft slab avalanche incident on Mt. McKinley (formerly known as Denali) on June 10, 2025.