Renihue Fjord

Kris McDivitt found her dream job in high school. And though it took twenty years, that job eventually brought her to Renihue Fjord, to the conservation project of a lifetime, and to Doug Tompkins. 

Pumalin Park, named for the area s native pumas, started with the 18,000 acres he purchased in the Renihue valley, that beautiful broken-down ranch with the stunning view of the fjord and its impossibly blue waters, and a snowcapped volcano framed by the front window of the ranch house. He had a homestead reachable only by boat or plane paradise to a man who felt most alive bivouacking on... 

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