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The North Face founder’s Chilean national parks dream comes true

22/03/2017

The Chilean government has given its support to a plan to set up a network of new national parks in the south of the country partly using land donated by Kristine McDivitt, the widow of the founder of outdoor brand The North Face, Douglas Tompkins. Mr Tompkins, who died in a kayaking accident in 2015, had lived in southern Chile for 25 years,...

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