I want him down at the baseball diamond right now!' Four years later, he started the Esprit clothing company with his first wife, Susie Tompkins Buell. The early years set the design standard of good quality sleeping bags, backpacks, and mountaineering tents. Well also keep you informed of exclusive offers, activism updates, special events and more. The Iber project advocated for enhanced protection of government-owned floodplain lands, and in 2009 the provincial government created Iber Provincial Park on 553,000 hectares of public land in the reserve. Douglas Tompkins, an outdoorsman, environmental activist, conservationist and entrepreneur who co-founded the North Face clothing company in San Francisco, died Tuesday in a kayaking accident in southern Chile. Revisiting their work in The Atlantic last year, Diana Saverin wrote of how Tompkins fealty to his ideology kept him a misunderstood figure. To the group sitting in their sea kayaks, only millimeters from the water, the waves must have looked like mountains. No one else was seriously injured in the accident. This is a guy who was a world class mountaineer, multiple first ascents on many continents and multiple first descents as a whitewater kayaker. Not only was Tompkins an experienced outdoorsman and respected environmentalist he had also launched two billion-dollar retail companies: outdoor apparel company the North Face and womens clothing manufacturer Esprit. I have bathed in these waters, but you cant last more than five minutes, said Hartmann. The businessman and conservationist was 72. strong waves caused the groups kayaks to capsize, considerable amount of time in waters under 4 degrees Celsius, in 1964 to make and sell outdoor equipment, equal an area the size of nearly two Rhode Islands, never ever tried to make life easy for myself, owned by VF Corp. of Greensboro, North Carolina, A photo posted by The North Face (@thenorthface). Two weeks later, they loaded a Ford Econoline with surfboards and climbing gear in Ventura, California, and headed south. Dont worry, we'll only contact you about activism here. Oxfam report reveals that since 2020, for every dollar earned by those in the poorest 90 per cent of humanity, a billionaire has earned 1.7 million. Both men described it as the best and most important expedition of their lives. Fitz Roy in 1968. What he was doing for conservation has been a complete turnaround.. The following day, the Chilean government announced that Pumaln Park, one of Tompkins earliest acquisitions, will become a national park in March 2017. 1:02. Doug Tompkins millionaire philanthropist and co-founder of the clothing companies North Face and Esprit shared a two-person kayak with Rick Ridgeway, 66, a veteran mountain climber and environmentalist who made the first American ascent of K2. 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Doug Tompkins, known for founding outdoor gear company The North Face, has died of hypothermia in a kayaking accident in Patagonia. Esprit, died in the terrain he was devoted to conserving. He was a passionate advocate for the environment, and his legacy of conservation is one that we hope to help continue in the work we do every day. In 1993, he married Kristine L. McDivitt, a former chief executive of Patagonia; the two worked together on conservation projects. Quest'opera distribuita con Licenza Creative Commons Attribuzione - Non commerciale - Non opere derivate 4.0 Internazionale. We will share more memories of our friend in the coming days. Soon enough, he came back and landed and everything was fine. These tents have been widely copied throughout the world. He died from hypothermia at a nearby hospital. No one else was seriously injured. The pair tried repeatedly to right the boat. Mr. Tompkins used his fortune to buy roughly 2.2 million acres through his various conservation groups, Mr. Butler said. Emerging as one of the hottest brands of the era, the company grew into a transnational company operating in 60 countries. [5] Due to this, he was posthumously naturalized Chilean. Instead, in his own kayak, Boyles held on to Tompkins body and grabbed a short rope dropped from the helicopters door. [36] Eco Barons, Edward Humes' 2009 account of the "dreamers, schemers, and millionaires who are saving our planet," uses Tompkins as the first example of this new group of philanthropists. Douglas Lynn Thompson, 67. Inspired by the principles of Norwegian philosopher Arne Nss, he established the Foundation for Deep Ecology in 1990, concerned with re-establishing man as a member of the natural world and not its master. "It's almost as if we've had a subconscious wish to invite catastrophe so we can try to get out of it. [9] She led Clinton's fundraising efforts for 2008 in the San Francisco Bay area. Of all the winning candidates of the 2006 municipal elections, Thompson had the highest percentage of donations coming from corporations (81.9%). Accessed 19 July 2020. In 2005, then-president Ricardo Lagos accepted this proposal, and the 726,000-acre (294,000ha) Corcovado National Park was born.[16]. He later eschewed the business world to focus on environmentalism, purchasing large swaths of land for . But by 1990 he had grown disillusioned with the corporate world and sold his stake in Esprit for what was reported as more than $150 million. Doug is related to Jean B Thompson . E-mail: pfimrite@sfchronicle.com. Resides in High Point, NC. Tompkins, who co-founded North Face and Esprit, died in the ecological empyrean of Patagonia that he had sought to protect after cashing out of his life in America and moving to South America. But his work will have no end. The cases of people surviving such serious cases of hypothermia as a result of accidents are extremely rare. We are on the side of those who decide to live with passion and purpose, acting to make the world a better place. 2. On Tuesday, The North Face, which is now owned by VF Corp. of Greensboro, North Carolina, paid tribute to its co-founder on Instagram. Iber Provincial Reserve, established in 1983, encompasses 1,300,000 ha of wetlands, grasslands, forest, and rangelands, including both publicly-owned lands and private cattle ranches. Douglas Tompkins shakes hands with Chilean President Ricardo Lagos in 2003. ne irreplaceable piece of writing on Tompkins ideological shift. We are deeply saddened by the news of Doug Tompkins passing. He flew airplanes, he climbed to the top of mountains all over the world, his daughter told The New York Times. [11], In 1964, Doug started The North Face, Inc. as a mail order and retail company, selling rock climbing and camping equipment. He most recently visited our headquarters in Alameda, CA in 2013 and again inspired us to live a life of outdoor exploration. Tompkins Buell co-founded the Esprit clothing and The North Face brand with her first husband, Doug Tompkins whom she met when she picked him up while he was hitchhiking. The proposed park, which would total 700,000 hectares, would be the largest national park in Argentina and home to hundreds of bird species, giant anteaters, and macaw parrots. He was flown, by helicopter, to a hospital in nearby Coyhaique, where he died hours later from severe hypothermia. Douglas Tompkins, co-founder of North Face, dies in kayak accident, Highway threatens Chilean preserve created by S.F. He graduated from Indian Mountain School, a pre-prep school in Lakeville, Connecticut, in 1957. Through the Foundation for Deep Ecology, Tompkins published a series of large-format, activist photograph books on environmental issues, including: In addition, The Foundation for Deep Ecology had a long history as a grant-maker in categories such as Biodiversity and Wilderness, Ecological Agriculture, and Megatechnology and Economic Globalization, although in-house publishing is now its main focus. Tompkins believes in deep ecology, an absolutist version of environmentalismwhich contains little to surprise a North American reader. In February 2012, Tompkins Buell stopped supporting President Barack Obama, citing disappointment with his leadership on environmental issues including climate change. But what he sees as philanthropy, local ranchers . 13. 1. In 1966, Tompkins opened a brick-and-mortar retail shop in San Francisco's North Beach neighborhood, next to an infamous strip joint called the Condor. [5] Initially Buell and Tise sold dresses to small clothing shops from the back of their Volkswagen van. Douglas Tompkins, a noted conservationist and the founder of the North Face and Esprit clothing brands, died on Tuesday after a kayaking accident in the Patagonia region of southern . Select this result to view Doug W Thompson's phone number, address, and more. According to a 2012 profile in Earth Island Journal. He was 72. He had assembled and preserved the land which became the largest gift of private land to any South American government. Nature lover and adventurer, he founded The North Facein 1964. In the process of buying up land for what he hoped would be 12 national parks, he reforested denuded acres, cultivated sustainable farms, built visitor centers and established hiking trails. By 1986, Esprit had grown into a global brand, hitting $800 million in sales. Around the lake, mountains rise up on all sides forming a highly variable microclimate the weather can turn from sunny and calm to snowing with gale-force winds in a matter of hours. Four years later, they launched Esprit. [39][40] He was 72 years old and survived by his second wife, Kristine (McDivitt), two daughters, brother and mother.[13][41]. We are all deeply saddened by the news of Doug Tompkins passing. 6. A local prosecutor, Pedro Salgado, told radio Bo Bo that the lake was known for unpredictable weather conditions. Text HELP for help. [10] They married in 1964 in San Francisco, where Tompkins borrowed $5,000 from a bank to set up The North Face, now a global retailing company. Dr. Douglas J. Thompson is an oncologist and is affiliated with UNC Health Blue Ridge.He received his medical degree from Medical College of Georgia and has been in practice for more than 20 years. He was at various points accused of being a spy, of buying up land to create a Zionist enclave, and of planning to ship Chiles fresh water to parched lands overseas. In 1989, he sold his share of the American company back to Susie, from whom he had separated, putting most of his profits into land conservation. "Then we got this side wind, so we had huge waves coming in on either side.". An early adventure junkie, he opened the North Face in 1964 with his first wife, Susan. The health service in the Aysn administrative region said Mr. Tompkins was boating with five others on General Carrera Lake when their kayaks capsized in heavy waves. I'm a troublemaker and I'm proud of it. [14] They put up a new route on Mount Fitzroy, and - together with filmmaker Lito Tejada-Flores, who also made the ascent - made an adventure film, Mountain of Storms, about their experience. Thompson had . They divorced in 1989. Tompkins Buell co-founded the Esprit clothing and The North Face brand with her first husband, Doug Tompkins whom she met when she picked him up while he was hitchhiking. Doug Tompkins, one of the founders of the outdoor clothing brand The North Face, died in a kayaking accident in Chile in 2015. [21], In March 2018, the Chilean president Michelle Bachelet announced that the government was accepting the gift of 1 million acres from Tompkins Conservation and creating five new national parks and expanding three more, covering 11 million acres in all, the largest private land donation in history. man. Mr. Tompkins, who also co-founded Esprit with his then-wife, Susie Tompkins Buell, capsized while paddling with five other people on General Carrera Lake in the Patagonia region, according to reports confirmed by North Face officials. The Iber project was a private conservation enterprise that was spearheaded by Tompkins, working with George Soros, Harvard University,[22] and Rewilding Argentina. "There are a lot of special interests that don't want to see land set aside." [11] Tompkins Buell held a fundraiser for David Brock's Media Matters at her San Francisco home. After he sold Esprit, he started to dedicate himself to protecting nature. Create a free Patagonia account. Instead, he set off in search of adventure. When The North Face founder Douglas Tompkins died after a kayaking accident in December, he left behind an unparalleled legacy: 2.2 million acres of protected wilderness. But he lived the life while others sat behind a desk.. The pair had already converted 480,ooo acres of their holdings to five national parks. // How Dougs death will affect negotiations with the government, I dont know, said Butler. Doug Thompson. Use Next and Previous buttons to navigate. Rumors now range from the conspiratorial to the phantasmagorical: Tompkins is creating a second Israel in South America; he is siphoning off the worlds last freshwater resources for other American millionaires; he is building bunkers for a pending nuclear war. Land conservation - Tompkins Conservation. Doug was a dear mentor to our company and a good friend to many of us here at Patagonia. He founded the Foundation for Deep Ecology in 1990, which supports environmental activism (see deep ecology), and The Conservation Land Trust in 1992, now called Tompkins Conservation, which works to protect wildlands, primarily in Chile and Argentina.[16][19]. Forecast and Projection . We are deeply saddened to learn of Doug Tompkins death. Peter Fimrite is a San Francisco Chronicle staff writer. They were on the fourth day of what was supposed to be an easy five-day paddle around the north side of Lake General Carrera, the vast turquoise-watered glacial lake which straddles the border of Argentina and Chile. Four years ago, Tompkins and Chouinard made their last first ascent in . Fast on his feet and quick with a retort, the twenty-two-year-old thrived on . He used to always tell me, Dont let your imagination get in the way of your potential. He is gone, but he will not be forgotten.. In a report last year, The Atlantic attempted to explain the enormity of the couple's conservation efforts: They have purchased enough land in Chile and Argentina to equal an area the size of nearly two Rhode Islands, and they plan to donate these ice-coated peaks, red-rock canyons and coastal volcanoes to the respective governments in the form of national parks. Often it is brandished as an accessory, sometimes it is used as a gateway, others still it is considered merely a credential. "Conservation is not without its critics and opposition," he acknowledged in an interview just before he died. We are the space in which education becomes determination, feeling becomes action, the goal becomes solution and result. Nevertheless, she adds, They have protected more land than any other private individuals in history.. Peter Hartmann, a local environmentalist and a longtime collaborator with Tompkins on conservation initiatives, watched the rescue from the edge of the lake. According to a 2012 profile in Earth Island Journal, many Chileans and Argentines worried that his land purchases and outspoken opposition to salmon farming and dam construction threatened their national sovereignty and stunted economic development. We see the loss of biodiversity as the greatest crisis of our time, writes Tompkins Conservation. In addition, he was a skilled bush pilot.[16]. He will be missed. The third result is Doug Lee Thompson age 60s in El Dorado Hills, CA in the Serrano neighborhood. Before the rescue, Tompkins spent a considerable amount of time in waters under 4 degrees Celsius, or under 40 degrees Fahrenheit, The New York Times reported, citing a local news story. For 20 years we have operated to catalyse social change, to awaken and feed a new state of ecological awareness, to inspire and promote new business and consumption models for people as well as companies. In 1971 they incorporated the booming business under the name "Plain Jane", which later became Esprit. [12] Buell along with George Soros and other Democracy Alliance members John R. Hunting; Paul Rudd (co-founder of Adaptive Analytics); Pat Stryker; Nicholas Hanauer; ex-Clinton administration official Rob Stein; Drummond Pike; real estate developer Robert Bowditch; Pioneer Hybrid International-heir and congressional candidate Scott Wallace; Gail Furman; real estate developer Albert Dwoskin; and Taco Bell-heir Rob McKay, funded the Secretary of State Project, an American non-profit, 527 political action committee focused on electing reform-minded progressive Secretaries of State in battleground states, who typically oversee the election process. [13] The Alliance was critical in getting California Secretary of State Debra Bowen and Minnesota Secretary of State Mark Ritchie re-elected. Esprits success in the 1980s fueled much of the conservation work that occupied Mr. Tompkins for much of the rest of his life. Tompkins, who founded The North Face and co-founded the Esprit clothing company, lived a life of such relentless adventure, and in the company of such illustrious friends including Tom Brokaw and the novelist Thomas McGuane that he was a near-legendary figure in the outdoor world. They were an eco power couple, said Conservacion Patagonicas Butler. We are all shocked, though in some way, he was doing what he loved, enjoying nature.. It was taboo to advocate for environmental causes, said Langman, who believes Chileans came to embrace Tompkins in the last years of his life. We want to do something good, but youve got to be very nave and out to lunch to think that certain sectors of society are not going to put up resistance, Mr. Tompkins told The New York Times. This is what we can do. "The Iber Wetlands: Argentinas Preeminent Wildlife Reserve". Douglas Rainsford Tompkins was born on March 20, 1943, in Ohio. Need it sooner? 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