Clothing brand · United States
The North Face
The North Face equips explorers and mountaineers with the best technical gear for extreme conditions.
Founding of The North Face, year 1966
Themes: exploration, resilience, nature, adventure.
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The origin
What the date says
- Milestone
- Founding of The North Face
- What happened
- Douglas Tompkins and Kenneth Klopp opened a mountaineering store in San Francisco in 1966, named after the coldest face of the peaks.
- Year
- 1966
- Source
- Historical documentation
- Note
- Founded in 1966 by Douglas Tompkins and Kenneth Klopp in San Francisco, California.
Only the year is documented: if it falls between January 21 and February 21, the sign could be the previous one.
Keep in mind
Affinity is a symbolic reading from the Chinese zodiac tradition, not a measurement: it compares the sign of the year you were born with that of each entry's year of origin.