Dispatches: Kris Tompkins’s 10-Million-Acre Life

Outside Podcast

Sports, Wilderness

4.4 • 2.1K Ratings

🗓️ 10 April 2018

⏱️ 22 minutes

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After building Patagonia into an internationally renowned apparel brand, the company’s first CEO, Kris Tompkins, walked away from the job, following her heart to South America. She landed on a small farm in Chile, where she and her soon-to-be husband, The North Face founder Doug Tompkins, set to work conserving one of the last wild places on earth. But just as their dream of creating a network of parks stretching across Argentina and Chile was coming to fruition in 2015, she lost Doug in a kayaking accident. In response, Kris has doubled down on their vision while figuring out how to forge a new path forward, on her own.

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0:00.0	This episode of the Outside Podcast is brought to you by The North Face, telling stories of women pushing the boundaries of exploration.
0:07.0	Today, it's Hillary Nelson.
0:10.0	And I'm a ski mountaineer.
0:12.0	Hillary Nelson was not some sort of child prodigy.
0:14.9	She didn't find her calling in the mountains
0:16.6	until she was a teenager.
0:18.3	But once she did, there was no looking back.
0:20.8	I don't know.
0:21.3	It was just magic. It fit with my body type, it fit with my spirit, my mind, and I think that was when I first knew like, well, this is like somehow, I don't know how, but what I was meant to do.
0:35.7	It wasn't long before she was traveling all around the world on expeditions to India,
0:40.1	Kimchatka, Mongolia, in Myanmar.
0:43.4	And while it's not easy to be a female badass mountaineer, it's even harder to be a female
0:48.1	badass mountaineer with kids.
0:50.6	The mountains keep calling. So much so that when my first kid was 10 months old,
0:57.0	I left and went to Pakistan for eight weeks
1:00.0	and went on a really aggressive trip and not just as a team member I was the team leader
1:06.9	being an expedition leader and raising kids are both about taking responsibility
1:11.0	for other people's lives. The problem is Hillary
1:14.1	wanted to raise kids who would do the things they were passionate about. She
1:18.1	felt like she had to be that person. I wanted to show that to my kids. So I might have been a little aggressive and it was really hard. I don't know if I could do it again to be honest. But I think they see it.
1:32.2	Find out more about Epic Adventures that I think they see it.
1:33.0	Find out more about epic adventures that can inspire everyday adventures
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