New nature park as big as Switzerland

park patagonia - With the help of an American gift in Chile a new nature park has been created as big as Switzerland, thanks to the now deceased founder of clothing brand the North Face and his ex-wife and widow, for years the CEO of a competitor.

With the donation of about a tenth of the total area of ​​the park, Doug Tompkins made a posthumous promise. The founder of the outdoor clothing brand, the North Face, had been collecting natural ground in Chile for years, until he died in Chile at the age of 72 in an accident during a canoe trip in Chile in 2015.

Already in 1994 Tompkins bought Chilean land together with his wife Kristine McDivitt Tompkins, who was already in the 'outdoor business'. For many years she was CEO of Patagonia, the brand named after the area that is now even more protected.