Remembering Doug Tompkins, the Founder of North Face and Esprit Who Chucked It …

At least he died doing what he loved. That was paramount among a variety of similar sentiments appended to clips and links yesterday as news circulated that Doug Tompkins, founder of The North Face and Esprit and the new century's most ambitious 

At least he died doing what he loved. That was paramount among a variety of similar sentiments appended to clips and links yesterday as news circulated that Doug Tompkins, founder of The North Face and Esprit and the new century's most ambitious 

At least he died doing what he loved. That was paramount among a variety of similar sentiments appended to clips and links yesterday as news circulated that Doug Tompkins, founder of The North Face and Esprit and the new century's most ambitious 

La marca fue establecida en San Francisco en 1968 por el recién fallecido Douglas Tompkins junto con Kenneth Klopp, quienes le dieron ese nombre a una tienda de equipo de montañismo que habían comprado dos años atrás. Desde el comienzo habían 

SANTIAGO, Chile — Douglas Tompkins, the co-founder of The North Face and Esprit clothing companies who bought up large swaths of land in South America's Patagonia region to keep them pristine, has died from severe hypothermia in a kayaking accident