North America’s tallest peak is renamed Mt. McKinley, but many Alaskans favor a name that spans deep into history.

King and many others who live in the mountain’s shadow say most Alaskans will never stop calling the peak Denali, its Alaska Native name, despite President Donald Trump’s executive order that the name revert to Mount McKinley -- an identifier inspired by President William McKinley, who was from Ohio and never set foot in Alaska.

The tallest peak in North America has been named Denali since 2015 when its name was officially changed under former President Barack Obama.

Hours into his second term as president, Donald Trump signed an executive order renaming Denali, the tallest mountain in the US, to Mount McKinley in honour of former President William McKinley. Here's everything you need to know about the Republican president, who served for just under five years before he was assassinated.

President Donald Trump has issued an executive order calling for North America’s tallest peak — Denali in Alaska — to be renamed Mount McKinley.

The 47th president is wading back into a century-long dispute over the name we give to North America’s tallest mountain

Many Alaskans say they’ll never stop calling the mountain Denali. That name respects the Indigenous people who’ve lived in its shadows for thousands of years. But Ohioans think McKinley “was a great president.