The man who spent his fortune on a park

Ian Lloyd NeubauerFeatures correspondent
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Glacial lakes (Credit: Ian Lloyd Neubauer)

Douglas Tompkins, the founder of North Face, has left behind one of history’s greatest land-conservation legacies by using his fortune to buy large tracts of farmland in Patagonia.