Wasn’t this the guy who bought a huge chunk of property in Patagonia and setup a Lefty Utopia?
Yep!
best friend of Chouinard, is a mountain climber, Deep Ecologist, and forward-thinking businessman. Tompkins was the founder of The North Face and co-owner of the ESPRIT clothing company. After reading the book Deep Ecology: Living as if Nature Mattered, Tompkins sold his share of Esprit, and began concentrating all of his energy on the defense of nature. Beginning with a purchase 1,000 acres of forest in Chile, Doug and his wife Kris have expanded this reserve to a massive 2.2 million acres in both Chile and Argentina.