Douglas Tompkins, 72, the renowned conservationist and co-founder of The North Face, died on Tuesday in a kayaking accident in Lake General Carrera, on the Chilean side of Patagonia.

Kristine Tompkins came to Chile for the first time in early 1993 with her husband Douglas Tompkins, who co-founded the North Face and Esprit clothing companies. He died in a kayaking accident in 2015.

The gift makes final a plan that began with Douglas Tompkins, a U.S. businessman turned conservationist who purchased the land piecemeal over several years The foundation created by the late ...