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PHOTOGRAPH BY JIMMY CHIN
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It was a dream she had with her husband. When he died, Kris Tompkins completed the monumental effort to save a huge chunk of South America from development.
Photographer and filmmaker Jimmy Chin had never seen such an effort—and he had documented Alex Honnold’s Herculean “Free Solo” climb up El Capitan. “What is more badass than saving the planet!? Kris didn’t stay within the lane markers that were set for her,” says Chin, a Nat Geo Explorer behind the documentary “Wild Life.”
The Nat Geo film, premiering in theaters this weekend, has a sub-theme: Love is a force of nature. It is also, Chin says, about a grieving widow becoming a force of nature herself—finding her voice and creating the impossible, step by step, to make the biggest private land donation in history.
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