(Mount McKinley) Timeline

* 1896-1902 Surveys by Robert Muldrow, George Eldridge, Alfred Brooks.
* 1903. First attempt, by Judge James Wickersham.
* 1906. Frederick Cook falsely claims the first ascent of McKinley.
* 1910. The Sourdoughs ascend the North Summit.
* 1912. The Parker-Browne attempt almost reaches the South Summit.
Mt. McKinley in July 2006
Mt. McKinley in July 2006
* 1913. First ascent by Hudson Stuck, Walter Harper, Harry Karstens, Robert Tatum.
* 1932. Second ascent, by Alfred Linley, Harry Liek, Grant Pearson, Erling Strom. (Both peaks were climbed.)
* 1947. Barbara Washburn becomes the first woman to reach the summit as her husband Bradford Washburn becomes the first to summit twice.
* 1951. First ascent of the West Buttress Route, led by Bradford Washburn.
* 1954. First ascent of the very long South Buttress Route.
* 1959. First ascent of the West Rib, now a popular, mildly technical route to the summit.
* 1961. First ascent of the Cassin Ridge, the best-known technical route on the mountain. This was a major landmark in Alaskan climbing.
* 1963. Two teams make first ascents of two different routes on the Wickersham Wall.
* 1967. First winter ascent, via the West Buttress, by Dave Johnston, Art Davidson, and Ray Genet.
* 1967. Seven members of Joe Wilcox's twelve-man expedition perish in a storm near the summit. Up to this time, this was the third worst disaster in mountaineering history in terms of lives lost.
* 1970. First solo ascent by Naomi Uemura.
* 1984. Uemura returns to make the first winter solo ascent, but dies after summitting. Tono Križo, František Korl and Blažej Adam from the Slovak Mountaineering Association climb a very direct route to the summit, now known as the Slovak Route, on the south face of the mountain, to the right of the Cassin Ridge.
* 1988. First solo winter ascent with safe return, by Vern Tejas.
* 1990. Alaskan Norma Jean Saunders became the first woman to officially document a solo ascent of Mount McKinley. She climbed the West Buttress.