Outdoor Adventure
In 1968, Tompkins headed off on a six month road/ adventure trip from California to Patagonia, along with Yvon Chouinard and two other climbing friends. They put up a new route on Mount Fitzroy, and made an adventure film, Mountain of Storms, about their experience. The 2010 film 180 Degrees South: Conquerors of the Useless describes a modern-day recreation of this journey.
"Rebel With A Cause" Doug Tompkins´ quest to save the wilderness - 2010 - A film by DreamTeam medienproduktion, arte, WDR, NDR 2010
Tompkins also became a skilled whitewater kayaker, claiming first descents of rivers in California, Africa, and South America.
In addition, he is a skilled bush pilot.
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Famous quotes containing the words outdoor and/or adventure:
“From my experience with wild apples, I can understand that there may be reason for a savage’s preferring many kinds of food which the civilized man rejects. The former has the palate of an outdoor man. It takes a savage or wild taste to appreciate a wild fruit.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“Happy a while in Paradise they lay;
But quickly woman longed to go astray:
Some foolish new adventure needs must prove,
And the first devil she saw, she chang’d her love:
To his temptations, lewdly she inclined
Her soul, and, for an apple, damn’d mankind.”
—Thomas Otway (1652–1685)