Patagonia's Philosopher King (2016)

Re:Patagonia's Philosopher King (2016) by JohnJamesRambo on Tuesday August 20, 2019 @08:43AM (#20746267)

Personal hero of mine. He pops up in lots of mountaineering documentaries. If only more CEOs were like this.

“I realized we were just growing for the sake of growing, which is bullshit.”

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Re:Patagonia's Philosopher King (2016) by samvher on Tuesday August 20, 2019 @10:21AM (#20747298)

Yeah I really recommend the documentary 180° South [1] which has both Yvon Chouinard (Patagonia) and Doug Tompkins (The North Face) and has them talking about their philosophy and conservation efforts as well. (A guy retraces a journey these two made in Patagonia back in the 60s.)

[1] https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1407927/ / https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AC9k2N9z3SI

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Re:Patagonia's Philosopher King (2016) by js2 on Tuesday August 20, 2019 @10:30AM (#20747388)

To go along with that recommendation, I'd add Chouinard's book:

https://www.patagonia.com/product/let-my-people-go-surfing-r...

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Re:Patagonia's Philosopher King (2016) by 50208 on Tuesday August 20, 2019 @02:08PM (#20750028)

Watch the original ... 180 South was based on ... Mountain of Storms:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ympydy7f1Mg

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Re:Patagonia's Philosopher King (2016) by samvher on Tuesday August 20, 2019 @04:09PM (#20751494)

This is great, thanks! I was wondering where the guy who made the other documentary got the old footage.

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Re:Patagonia's Philosopher King (2016) by ilikehurdles on Tuesday August 20, 2019 @12:24PM (#20748767)

The youtube video is unfortunately unavailable in my country (USA).

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Re:Patagonia's Philosopher King (2016) by iamvik on Tuesday August 20, 2019 @11:51AM (#20748340)

we don't grow "for the sake of growing", there's plenty of poor people in the world that need that growth. Whether that growth reaches them is another story..

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