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- Birth nameDouglas Rainsford Tompkins
- Doug Tompkins was born on March 20, 1943 in Conneaut, Ohio, USA. He is known for Im Fluss des Lebens (2012), Mountain of Storms (2018) and 180° South (2010). He was married to Kristine Tompkins and Susie Tompkins Buell. He died on December 8, 2015 in Coyhaique, Aysén Region, Chile.
- SpousesKristine Tompkins(1993 - December 8, 2015) (his death)Susie Tompkins Buell(1964 - 1989) (divorced, 2 children)
- After retiring in 1989, Tompkins was active in conservation and environmentalism. He owned hundreds of thousands of acres in Patagonia, a travel destination bursting with tough terrain and untamed rivers straddling southern Chile and Argentina. On his Chilean land, he created Pumalin Park, 716,606 acres of forest, lakes and fjords stretching from the Andes to the Pacific.
- Tompkins was one of the founders of The North Face, which began as a ski and backpacking retail and mail order operation before it was bought out by VF Corp. in 2000. He also founded with his wife, Susie, the Esprit clothing company in San Francisco in 1968.
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