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
The death of 72-year-old environmentalist and businessman Doug Tompkins in a kayaking accident brought encomiums from everywhere. Former NBC newsman Tom Brokaw said he "was in awe" of Tompkins, calling him a "complete man." Much of
Douglas Tompkins, co-founder of clothing brands the North Face and Esprit, died Tuesday at age 72 after a kayaking accident on General Carrera Lake in Coyhaique, Chile, the New York Times reported. Tompkins, a longtime conservationist, founded the
Healdsburg photographer and ecologist Quincey Tompkins Imhoff is awash in memories following the death Tuesday of her father, Douglas Tompkins, the world-class conservationist and co-founder of The North Face and Esprit clothing lines. For Doug
An active outdoorsman, besides buying up land to preserve it, Tompkins also sometimes got involved in local environmental issues in Chile and Argentina. Many credit him with helping to raise consciousness about the toll that large man-made projects