‘In Alaska, it’s Denali’: senators move to counter Trump’s mountain name order

Lisa Murkowski said: ‘This isn’t a political issue – Alaskans from every walk of life have long been advocating for this mountain to be recognized by its true name.’ Photograph: Stefani Reynolds/AFP/Getty Images

The Alaska Republican US senator Lisa Murkowski has introduced legislation to officially rename North America’s tallest mountain as Denali, a counter to Donald Trump’s executive order to revert the peak’s name to Mount McKinley.

Murkowski’s bill, which was co-sponsored by her fellow Republican senator for Alaska, Dan Sullivan, would require the peak to be referred to as Denali on any US maps, laws and regulations.