North Face Founder Doug Tompkins Dies in Kayaking Accident

Doug Tompkins, co-founder of The North Face and Esprit, has died in a kayaking accident on Lago General Carrera in southern Chile. Tompkins was a passionate conservationist and was dedicated to buying and preserving land through Conservacion Patagonica

, and with his wife Kris McDivitt was dedicated to creating new national parks in Chile and Argentina. Read more about Tompkins’s life and sometimes controversial work in The Atlantic.