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Wild life review: The couple who bought up Chile to conserve it

What made Doug and Kristine Tompkins quit their corporate lifestyle and start buying swathes of unused land in South America? An engrossing documentary tells their story, says Simon Ings

By Simon Ings

14 June 2023

Kris Tompkins holds up a heartshaped rock during her hike up the mountain range in Patagonia, Chile. (Jimmy Chin)

Kristine Tompkins hiking on a mountain range in Patagonia, Chile

Jimmy Chin

Wild Life

Jimmy Chin and Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi

Disney+

DON’T be fooled by the Grateful Dead concert near the beginning of Wild Life. This documentary isn’t about happy-go-lucky hippies who fell backwards into money, it is about three major outdoor apparel companies and the people who founded and controlled them. It is also the story of how two of those people, Doug and Kristine Tompkins, spent years engineering the largest private land donation in history, all to save diverse and degrading …

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