US billionaire Douglas Tompkins, co-founder of the North Face outdoor clothing brand, has died of hypothermia after his kayak capsized in a near-freezing lake in Chile's Patagonia region, the ...
Tompkins created The North Face and co-founded Esprit, but abandoned the business world to devote himself to environmental causes. He was 72. North Face Founder Douglas Tompkins Dies In Kayaking ...