In December, she met with new Argentine president Macri to donate to the country 150,000 hectares of threatened wetlands near to create Ibera National Park. Over the years, the Tompkins have ...

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.