About the 210th Rescue Squadron during the 1999 climbing season on Denali.
Thus, "McKinley is prettier than Everest" is "epistemically subjective", whereas "McKinley is higher than Everest" is "epistemically objective.
He was a member of the twelfth party to climb Mount McKinley in 1954, and climbed a number of other high peaks in Alaska and Canada.
Mount Everest | William McKinley | Mount Vernon | Mount Kilimanjaro | Mount Pleasant | Mount Lebanon | Mount Athos | Mount Olympus | Temple Mount | Mount Fuji | Mount Rainier | Mount Celestia | Mount Shasta | Mount Kupe | Mount Hood | Mount Holyoke College | Mount St. Helens | Mount Sinai Hospital | Mount Sinai | Mount Kenya | Mount Airy | Mount Vesuvius | Mount Rushmore | Mount Kosciuszko | Mount Carmel | Mount Barker | Mount Panorama Circuit | Mount Isa | Mount Desert Island | Mount Cameroon |
She was also a deputy leader of the first all-woman ascent of Mount McKinley and the first American woman to attempt to ascend Mount Everest.
Highpointers once considered Jerimoth Hill less accessible than Mount McKinley as the only access was heavily posted against trespassing.
The first ascent of the peak was in 1976 by Russell McLean and Charlie Porter (fresh from the first solo of the Cassin Ridge on Mount McKinley).
Wells was an avid alpinist and came close, but did not achieve his goal of the Seven Summits, climbing the highest mountain on each of the seven continents: Kilimanjaro in Africa, Denali (Mount McKinley) in North America, Aconcagua in South America, Elbrus in Europe, Mount Everest in Asia, Mount Kosciuszko in Australia, and Vinson in Antarctica.
Fred Beckey, Mount McKinley: Icy Crown of North America, Mountaineers Books, 1999, ISBN 0-89886-646-4