Alaska's senior senator is again trying to move mountains to get the White House to restore Denali as the official name of Alaska's tallest peak instead of Mount McKinley.

On his first day back in office, President Donald Trump reinstated the Mount McKinley moniker, named after William McKinley, the 25th U.S. president from Ohio.

Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) argued Tuesday at a Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee that Denali's traditional name was used long before a gold prospector applied McKinley's name to the 20,310-foot peak.

"We have called this mountain Denali in Alaska for decades, generations," Murkowski said. "The Koyukon Athabascan people have referred to it as Denali for millennia."

"Denali translates as the 'Great One,'" Murkowski said. "What more fitting name f

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