Barbara Polk Washburn, the first woman to climb Mount McKinley in Alaska, died Thursday.Washburn, who was 99, is credited along with her husband, Bradford Washburn, with transforming Boston's Museum ...

Recently, Barbara Washburn passed away at the age of 99. She was the first woman to set foot on the summit of Denali, but her legacy in the Talkeetna area has as much to do with who she was as what ...

America's tallest mountain has been known as Mount McKinley for almost 100 years. But on Monday, President Obama officially restored its native Alaskan name, Denali. Alaska made the name change in ...

Barbara Washburn, wife of the late mountaineer Bradford Washburn and the first woman to climb Mount McKinley died on Sept. 25 in Lexington, Massachusetts. She was 99. Washburn, nee Polk, was born Nov.

CAMBRIDGE -- For Barbara and Bradford Washburn, life didn't imitate art: They made their lives into works of art. Scaling the world's highest peaks, Brad Washburn became a climbing legend -- exploring ...

LEXINGTON -- Like lots of married couples, Bradford and Barbara Washburn have had their ups and downs. They made mountaineering history when they climbed up 20,300-foot Mount McKinley in Alaska ...

BOSTON – Bradford Washburn, who founded the Boston Museum of Science and directed a 1999 effort that revised the official elevation of Mount Everest, has died of heart failure. He was 96. The renowned ...