Doug Tompkins, the co-founder of The North Face and Esprit clothing lines, died Tuesday after a kayaking incident in Patagonia, Chile. He was 72. Tompkins appeared to have been with several other m… ...

SANTIAGO (Reuters) - U.S. environmentalist and businessman Douglas Tompkins, the founder of outdoor clothing and equipment company The North Face, died on Tuesday during a kayaking trip in Chile ...

With only one reference photo of the descent route, they skied down Lautaro’s north face. The 2,200m vertical descent included a short but very technical crux of 55º. It took them 17 hours to ...

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 ...

PATAGONIA, Chile — Doug Tompkins, the co-founder of The North Face and Esprit clothing lines, died Tuesday while kayaking in Patagonia, Chile. He was 72. Tompkins was an avid conservationist … ...

SANTIAGO, Chile — Wealthy U.S. businessman and environmental activist Douglas Tompkins died Tuesday from severe hypothermia in a kayaking accident, Chilean authorities said. The Aysten health ...

Tompkins created The North Face and co-founded Esprit, but abandoned the business world to devote himself to environmental causes. He was 72.

It was probably Douglas Tompkins’s love of the wilderness that made him so good at his job running the outdoor gear empire The North Face and clothing company Esprit.A businessman is what he was ...

The North Face, which claimed revenue of $2 billion in 2013, was not Tompkins' only foray into business. In 1968, he and his first wife Susie co-founded clothing retailer Esprit, which also grew ...

SANTIAGO, Chile — Douglas Tompkins, the U.S. co-founder of The North Face and Esprit clothing companies has died from severe hypothermia in a kayaking accident in Chile, authorities say.The 72 ...