Doug Tompkins

His passing is being reported.

"The founder of Pumalin Park was rescued by the Chilean Navy and transferred with hypothermia to the regional hospital in Coyhaique, with only 18 degrees of body temperature, where he died at 18:30 local time."

www.notisur.cl/?p=8450

Damn. I saw them walking in the park, hand-in-hand, just a few days ago. He was very gracious. Still working, still going on backcountry adventures with his old buddies, still trying to save a few bits of the planet.

I was in the Baker River yesterday - literally at times - with a wetsuit. It wasn't bad, but I have no idea how long he was in the water or what the water temperature was like compared to the Baker.

Damn.

Some have survived at much lower temps but there are only a few cases reported.
For example :
Anna Elisabeth Johansson Bågenholm is a Swedish radiologist from Vänersborg, who survived after a skiing accident in 1999 left her trapped under a layer of ice for 80 minutes in freezing water. During this time she became a victim of extreme hypothermia and her body temperature decreased to 13.7 °C (56.7 °F), the lowest survived body temperature ever recorded in a human with accidental hypothermia. Bågenholm was able to find an air pocket under the ice, but suffered circulatory arrest after 40 minutes in the water. Bågenholm’s case has been discussed in the leading British medical journal The Lancet, and in medical textbooks.

Not long after 13c was recorded on a young girl that also survived.

I looked into this sometime ago because of Lincoln Hall (Aussie climber, not Rob Hall the Kiwi climber) Everest survival, I still haven't figured out how he did it :
"Sitting to our left, about two feet from a 10,000 foot drop, was a man. Not dead, not sleeping, but sitting cross legged, in the process of changing his shirt*. He had his down suit unzipped to the waist, his arms out of the sleeves, was wearing no hat, no gloves, no sunglasses, had no oxygen mask, regulator, ice axe, oxygen, no sleeping bag, no mattress, no food nor water bottle. 'I imagine you're surprised to see me here', he said. Now, this was a moment of total disbelief to us all. Here was a gentleman, apparently lucid, who had spent the night without oxygen at 8600m, without proper equipment and barely clothed. And ALIVE."
* Paradoxical undressing ,caused by the sudden release of the last warm blood from the vital organs (mostly the brain at that stage) making one feel hot .
I don't know of anyone else that has survived past that stage.

I was just at the hospital. A lady in the ER took me upstairs and back somewhere that wasn't part of the ER but she couldn't find them.

What will happen to the Park ?

I can't do fancy stuff like links from here, so you'll have to copy and paste.

www.tompkinsconservation.org/news/2015/12/09/douglas-tompkins-a-force-for-nature/

If you go to the home page you can see some of the organizations and parks they founded - and funded. I've been involved through Conservacion Patagonica.