EcoCamp Patagonia - The Chilean Founders’ Story behind the World’s 1st Geodesic Sustainable Hotel

- Inspirational video about the origins of EcoCamp Patagonia and the philosophy of its Chilean founders Javier Lopez and Yerko Ivelic. What made two university friends who owned a small adventure travel company decide to create the world’s first geodesic hotel in Torres del Paine National Park, Chilean Patagonia? In one of the world’s largest areas of wilderness with one of the most powerful climates, EcoCamp Patagonia opened its doors in 2001 after Javier and Yerko combined a new style of lodging, resistant to the fierce Patagonian winds, with sustainable hotel features they’d seen across the world. Javier, Yerko and pioneering Chilean kayak instructor Nani Astorga had been running kayak and rafting trips on Chile’s Bio Bio river during the 1990’s, as founding directors of Chilean outdoor adventure company Cascada Expediciones () . The river was controversially dammed by a private electricity company in Chile to make a hy