>>2461454>>24614571. That's not what he did. He turned the company over to a trust so that it will continue to be managed in the direction he wants, after he dies. He set the stipulations that the company will donate x amount to environmental causes every FY, and it will continue to do so after he dies.
2. He's a loser. He gave up mountaineering because he was more interested in selling clothing to mountaineers. That's embarrassingly lame.