Corcovado National Park is an 2,940-square-kilometre preserved area of Valdivian temperate rainforest, high peaks, alpine lakes, and rivers in Chile's Los Lagos Region. This coastal park borders the G
View of Yelcho River in the park
Yate volcano seen from Huar Island
The park as seen from Quellón
Douglas Tompkins
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Douglas Rainsford Tompkins was an American businessman, conservationist, outdoorsman, philanthropist, filmmaker, and agriculturalist. He founded the North Face Inc., co-founded Esprit and various envi
Corcovado National Park (Chile)
…philanthropist Peter Buckley sparked the effort to transform this area into a national park. In 2002, through an intermediary, Tompkins Conservation founder Doug Tompkins approached then-president Ricardo Lagos with a proposition: If the private lands around Corcovado were given to the people of Chile, would the government…
Tompkins in 2009