(Outsideonline.com) One of America’s most beloved and legendary alpinist — Robert Underhill — has had his name officially stripped from the American Alpine Club’s prestigious annual award — for writing unflattering comments about Jews in his private letters from the 1930s and 40s, uncovered by Maurice Isserman — a Jewish academic whose specialty is the history of communism in America — but also became an overnight “authority” on mountaineering when he decided to write a book climbing in the Himalayas — completely out of his area of expertise.
Another Jew — a freelance writer/blogger — Brad Ressler — who had read Isserman’s book which included Underhill’s “antisemitic” letters, turned around and brought the content of those private letters to the attention of the American Alpine Club, demanding that action be taken against Underhill’s legacy award — which is exactly what happened.
And note at the end of this essay, Ressler seems to suggest that the Underhill award be renamed for “Jamie” Jim Logan — a transgender climber who received the award in 2020 — the ultimate middle finger to Robert Underhill’s values and accomplishments.
The following article is Ressler’s self-righteous screed — his justification for destroying the reputation of man whose unrivaled accomplishments and reputation were revered by everyone who knew him — and replacing him with someone more in keeping with Ressler’s Jewish values — a transsexual deviant.
We would recommend read this short biographical note about Underhill written in 1984 a year after his death — just to get a perspective on the well-deserved esteem which was afforded this humble man by his peers.
The following quote from the 1924 book You Gentiles by Jewish writer, Maurice Samuel, accurately sums up how — and why — scribbling Jews like Isserman and Ressler build nothing — but rather specialize in tearing down their host nations and cultures, justified by their own claims of victimhood:
“We Jews, we are the destroyers and will remain the destroyers. Nothing you can do will meet our demands and needs. We will forever destroy because we want a world of our own.”
On the morning of May 4, I learned that the American Alpine Club (AAC) is planning to change the name of the Robert and Miriam Underhill Award, a prestigious annual prize that honors the memories of two outstanding alpinists, a husband-and-wife team who made a mark in the first half of the 20th century. For the past 39 years, the club has given the Underhill Award to an American climber who has “demonstrated the highest level of skill in the mountaineering arts and who, through the application of this skill, courage, and perseverance, has achieved outstanding success in the various fields of mountaineering endeavor.” The award’s 46 recipients include some of American climbing’s most famous names: Lynn Hill, Royal Robbins, Catherine M. Freer, Yvon Chouinard, Jeff Lowe, Alex Honnold, Conrad Anker, Jim Donini, Kitty Calhoun, and Peter Croft.
I never met the Underhills—he died in 1983, she in 1977—but I’d read about them, and I learned a few years ago that Robert, a revered figure in the history of California climbing, was an antisemite. In letters written to friends at the Sierra Club and the AAC in 1939 and 1946, respectively, he referred to Jews as “kikes,” “mutts,” and “lowgrade.” He implied that Jewish people didn’t belong on rock faces at all and said they lacked the character and physical traits to be successful in challenging mountain environments.
Robert Underhill’s distaste for Jews has been documented in two books by the climbing historian Maurice Isserman: Fallen Giants, a sweeping 2010 history of Himalayan mountaineering, cowritten with Stewart Weaver, and Continental Divide, an epic 2017 account of climbing in the United States. Isserman’s books were well-known among climbers, but to my knowledge the AAC had never publicly addressed Underhill’s attitudes about Jews. Plenty of organizations have interrogated their problematic pasts in recent years. Shouldn’t the AAC?
I’ve been a club member for 21 years. I’m Jewish, and I’ve been the victim of antisemitism. Though I’d intended to write about Isserman’s research, I hadn’t gotten around to doing it. Then, on April 22 of this year, I scrolled through my email and found an AAC newsletter announcing the new winner of the Underhill Award—Joe Terravecchia—and I decided it was time to bring up Robert’s old statements. Later that day, I emailed the AAC. Citing Isserman’s research, I asked if they knew about the letters and whether they thought the organization should respond to their contents. Jamie Logan, the AAC’s interim CEO, emailed within the hour to thank me for reaching out. “As a recipient of the Underhill award my immediate reaction is that we should rename the award,” she wrote.
For 12 days, I didn’t hear anything else, and I wondered whether I was getting blown off. I also wondered whether I’d unwittingly blurred my role: Was I making the inquiry as a club member or as a journalist? I decided to write once more to ask if the silence was the same as no comment. But then, early on the morning of May 4, Logan emailed me. “Hi Brad, we have decided to rename the award. We are also doing some research into Miriam’s views before we finalize what to do.” On May 5, the AAC removed the Robert and Miriam Underhill Awardees page from its website…
…Later that day, I talked to several Underhill recipients, who didn’t know about Robert’s antisemitism and were pleased with the AAC’s decision. “I had no idea he had that past,” said Lynn Hill, who won in 1984. “I believe that climbing is a sport that is inclusive and welcomes all races, all genders, and people who love climbing and love the earth and love nature and love humanity. And that is not humanity…”
…In the origin story of modern Yosemite climbing, few people loom as large as Robert L.H. Underhill, a professor of philosophy at Harvard who was the editor of the Appalachian Mountain Club’s journal and who, by the early 1930s, had put up notable ascents in the U.S. and Europe. In 1931, he traveled west to teach European rope techniques to a handful of the Sierra Club’s best climbers.
“Now it is necessary to understand that the rope, in its final meaning, is the symbol which transforms an individualistic into a higher social enterprise,” he wrote in an essay published in the Sierra Club Bulletin—an essay that followed the completion of a legendary Sierra climbing season. With Norman Clyde, Jules Eichorn, and Glen Dawson, Underhill made the first ascent of Mount Whitney’s east-face route that year.
“The time is summer 1931, the place [is] Garnet Lake in the Sierra Nevada,” writes historian Joseph E. Taylor III in Pilgrims of the Vertical, a 2010 history of Yosemite climbing. “Francis Farquhar has brought fellow Harvard man and celebrated mountaineer Robert Underhill to teach European techniques to the Sierra Club. Underhill treads the holy Range of Light like a mountaineering Moses, and the followers of John Muir listen reverently.”
In letters written to friends at the Sierra Club and the AAC in 1939 and 1946, respectively, Underhill referred to Jews as “kikes,” “mutts,” and “lowgrade.” He implied that Jewish people didn’t belong on rock faces at all.
Before she married Underhill in 1932, Miriam O’Brien had also established herself as a top-shelf climber and writer. Her essay “Manless Alpine Climbing,” published in the August 1934 issue of National Geographic, summarized her distinguished career as a pioneering alpinist—she was one of the best of her generation, of either gender. Together, Robert and Miriam, accompanied by two guides, had made the first traverse of the Alps’ Aiguilles du Diable in 1928.
Robert, an academic, a world traveler fluent in German, and a Quaker who was described by a classmate as “a quiet and unassuming person [who] never advertised his exploits,” was unusually expressive when it came to the subject of inborn human qualities. “Likening climbers to military comrades and ascribing leadership to the ‘virtue’ of ‘natural capacity’ and ‘inborn talent and natural instinct,’” Taylor writes, “Underhill echoed Victorian beliefs about the innate nature of masculine, physical superiority.”
Unfortunately, Robert also believed that the inborn qualities of Jews were lacking. In 1939, Sierra Club board member Dick Leonard wrote to him to ask about a climbing fatality that had happened near West Point, New York. The death occurred during an outing sponsored by the Appalachian Mountain Club, the country’s oldest outdoor-recreation nonprofit and Underhill’s organizational home. He replied by disparaging the fallen climber, who happened to be Jewish, and lamenting Jews’ membership in the New York chapter of the AMC. Isserman cites the letter in Continental Divide:
“The A.M.C. has a New York Chapter, but the members are so afraid of getting stuck with kikes and others that they deliberately suppress any publicity it might have and make it almost impossible for new people to join! One can’t be sure some special Jewish psychology didn’t enter into this accident, at least fundamentally. It isn’t so usual for Jews to go in for mountaineering, and when they do I can conceive that they are conscious of invading what they may look upon as the other man’s sport, and consequently that they feel unduly impelled to make themselves felt by undertaking the spectacular.”
When Isserman was researching “Fallen Giants” at the AAC archives in Golden, Colorado, he came across a letter dated June 24, 1946. Underhill was addressing Henry S. Hall, a former climbing partner and a fellow Harvard alum. He wrote:
“Have you the pleasure of a personal acquaintance with Mr. James Ramsey Ullman? Neither have I but Miriam and I have just spent a night at the Lakes of the Clouds hut where he was present with his two boys. Unless I miss my guess, he is a lowgrade New York Jew—at any rate his boys are beautifully Jewish and he is incontestably lowgrade. . . . The New York chapter of the AMC would never let such a mutt through their censors; can the A.A.C. be less choosey?“
The existence of Underhill’s antisemitic letters was no secret. In fact, ‘Fallen Giants” and “Continental Divide” merited coverage in the American Alpine Journal, the latter reviewed in 2017 by Peter Beal, who wrote: “Particularly interesting is a discussion of anti-Semitism and other forms of discrimination from very well-known figures in climbing, such as Robert Underhill…”
And yet, before now, the AAC’s board had not publicly discussed Underhill’s antisemitic predilections or considered the effect of his words on the organization. When I asked Pete Ward about the club’s institutional memory, he replied: “While I’m not willing to speculate on what has come before, I can say that the AAC staff and board are committed to a continual process of examining and shining light on all parts of our history. Including, and especially, the parts of that history that must evolve. We are accountable to our community and to ourselves to be open, accurate and transparent in that evolution.”
As for Miriam Underhill, Isserman told me he didn’t find any evidence that she shared her husband’s prejudices. Ward said that his team’s initial impressions are the same.
The dates of Robert Underhill’s letters are important. By 1939, Adolf Hitler’s persecution of German Jews was well underway. In July 1944, The New York Times reported that approximately 1.75 million Jews had perished at the hands of the Nazis, a figure that, tragically, turned out to be low. By 1945, Allied troops had started liberating a network of concentration and death camps. And in 1946, Underhill, presumably writing from the comfort of his New Hampshire home, saw fit to complain to his friend Henry Hall about the American Alpine Club’s Jewish problem.
I don’t wish to suggest that American Jews suffered from the same level of systemic othering, marginalization, and violence that some minority groups have in this country. At the same time, American Jews were barred from admission to certain clubs, subjected to quotas at institutions of higher learning, and redlined from neighborhoods. And yes, there were also victims of violence, including Leo Frank, who was infamously lynched in Atlanta in 1915.
When Underhill referred to Ullman as a mutt, he was invoking an age-old antisemitic trope, which had recently been employed by the Third Reich: Jews as a race apart, impure, an entire people requiring eradication. When Underhill complained to Leonard about the inclusion of Jews in the climbing ranks, he was reinforcing not only a classist system but also suggesting that by seeking admission to climbing clubs, Jews were overreaching.
Historically, a Jewish athlete’s successes served to puncture the negative cultural stereotypes that have portrayed Jews as weak, cowardly, and venal: images promulgated by the antisemitic propaganda of Nazi Germany and seen in the recent rise of virulent antisemitism, both in the U.S. and abroad. “Sports [has provided] for distinctive ethnic identity and solidarity, [and] Jewish athletes during the inter-war years were viewed by fellow Jews as symbols of anti-racism resistance,” writes sociologist Richard Giulianotti in Sport: A Critical Sociology.
Simply put, a Jew—or a member of any marginalized people—who excels in an endeavor creates opportunities for those who follow. By limiting their membership to the ranks of the AAC, by demeaning a dead Jew who was supposedly killed by exceeding his abilities, Underhill was using his considerable influence to keep Jews down.
“There’s no way to interpret Underhill’s comments except as anti-Semitic,” Isserman told me in an email, adding that his tone reflected “his assumption that in revealing his own anti-Semitism he would not discredit himself in the eyes of those with whom he was corresponding…”
Jamie Logan, who is 75, knows something of courageous and transformative change. She won the Underhill Award in 2020 to honor a career during which she went by Jim Logan. Jamie transitioned completely in 2017. She took the lead on the decision to change the award’s name, and she’s facilitating a process to assess the sweep of the club’s history.
“It’s my feeling that any organization 100 years or more old should look into its past,” Jamie told me, “because it’s likely there will be problematic characters and incidents that don’t mesh with the present.”
So, I guess the jews that run Cambridge (into the ground) will be returning all of the money they made from publishing the entire five volume “The Letters of Ernest Hemingway”, right? I own the entire set and Papa was making his feelings about “kikes” quite clear in a good deal of these letters. But no doubt that particular set of books is too much of a cash cow for them to derail the shekel, er, I mean gravy train. They need those funds so that they can continue to put out such sterling works as “The Cambridge Companion to Hip-Hop”..
A news article claims a Pentagon team is going to remove the names of nine Confederate named military bases and rename them in honor of blacks to show their heroism, dedication, etc.
Another example of distorting history.
Why doesn’t Joe Biden just declare the country under the rulership of the New World Order. He’s giving away our country, culture, history, achievements right in front of our faces and getting away with it.
Pat Tillmann was said to join the miliary and gave up a career and money to go to Iraq, and some say murdered deliberately because he realized the war was not what it was portrayed, and his killing was to shut him up.
But I guess to name a post for him would be racist.
It’s getting more and more difficult and seemingly wasteful to even bother with what’s happening today and care. Biden and his Jewish Secretary of State waited for this war in Ukraine to happen , just as the Bush’s and their Jewish Secretary of States did the same.
Our satanic controlled government creates enemies ahead of time for years , until they can create a situation to overthrow ,assassinate leaders or bring about war. Israel, while we were in Iraq and Afghanistan tried to goad the United States to go to war against Iran and failed. Yet, there is constant attempts and now getting worse to bring it about.
I love to hear Alex Jones mock his followers by preaching his pretentious religiosity, telling them the end is near , the globalists are winning, and then later telling them he and his listener’s are winning to send more money to keep him in the fight. Yet, he has done nothing to stop anything the globalist plan. He talks New Age philosophy and principles and makes Masonic hand gestures subtlety now that others told him off about it, yet the Christian’s love him.
We went from Afghanistan and Iraq for 20 years of war to letting Putin do what Saddam Huessin thought he had to do, solve their own problems by war. Those two leaders knew that the United States rules the world for the New World Order with the pretentious fear of the United States as the most powerful country in the world. And we are laughing at Russia and Putin for losing so many thousands of men and pieces of military equipment as a paper bag army, but for almost a century we were made to hate and distrust her because of communism, while the Jews were in control.
Russia is to never become a equal partner in this world . The United States is to rule the roost. Look at the Russian soldiers that we laugh at , because supposedly tens of thousands have been killed and wounded: they look like us.
A news interview about a retired US military officer says he is smiling, I quickly read it, and later looked him up. He attended a Catholic school, has a military background that makes him seem he should is a fabulously intelligent and creative personality. Why would a military man ,especially an officer laugh at the deaths of his opponents men, let alone , the fact that an officer is supposed to look out for his men.
It’s becoming more and more oblivious and out in the open, that there is a scheme to take over the world by a ruling cabal, they are openly bragging and revealing it and most just sit back and laugh about it all as a conspiracy and go on with business.
Zelensky tells the United States, Biden or the other countries what he wants and demands and they can’t get or give it to him fast enough. If you read the news of what we have and what he is given, it would show we are depleting our stockpiles of weapons, as well as what was left on the withdrawal.
And as Israel wants war with Iran and has been trying to provoke it for years, these are weapons that can be used against us.
A young Syrian girl was interviewed and asked why she joined the military and said that she wanted to defend her country, yet this US government is trying to overthrow Syria for years . And one of the countries Israel periodically bombs to keep the agitation going.
No doubt that Germany is still under Jewish control after WW11, when they make submarine’s for Israel, and are now sending military arms to the Jewish Zelensky.
Yet an article , I’m guessing in the 1960, or 1970’s , said that German soldiers of WW 11 were not allowed to hold parades to commemorate WW11. Only the Jews hate Germany enough to make that happen.
In about the 1980’s or 1990’s, maybe later, an article said the Jews were creating their religious instruments for their temple and training young men in ritual sacriface. So, they may be impatient to get something going to hurry things along
No one questions the amount of money printed given to Ukraine, nor value in military arms. We are slaves to the Jews through their Federal Reserve. It has to get worse. Our ancestors tried to warn us that when the United States served its purpose, it too will be “laid low.” A women in South Africa tried to warn American’s in the 1980’s that what was happening to them would happen to us.
It has been done slowly over the decades by other Presidents , but under Biden, he is trying to make us Rhodesia and South Africa as quicky as possible.
Trump claimed he supported Israel 1000 per cent. Biden is no different. Trump gave Israel Jerusalem as Israel’s capital, the Golan Heights, said to be rich in minerals, and it was said he had no right to do, and passed HR 6421.
Our day of reckoning is coming because when the world is completely under domination, like Putin says of NATO, which must be the One World military , British businessman , Robert Maxwell said that we will have whether we want it or not, who will resist, the declaration of the takeover of the world?
Religious leaders during the last 70 years, especially since the civil rights days have sat back and made a business of religion. Wonder when we will be walking the streets ,pulling whatever belongings we can carry will happen.
I can’t figure out if it worth even caring what is happening in the world or go about and let events happen. Others write books exposing the evil in the world and still, things keep happening to keep the world in turmoil for another event.
We’ll be back in the Middle East. The United States guarantee’s Israel’s protection and gas supplies, and why Iran may be tolerating all it has over the year’s
Wouldn’t and shouldn’t Antiman trump “antisemitism” as semitism is to the desert tribes of the middle east?
Dessert tribes are brown the last time i checked not white.
Jews are wholly without identity…they need to replace anyone and any’thing’ and put their satanic star upon it. They spend the whole of their lives trying to uphold their constant rivers of LIES that they have absolutely no life at all. Demonic sperm has no bounds, no life, no identity, no bravery, nothing noble, 100% no courage with the only identity as a cancer upon humanity as a reality. Just watching what they do at a stone wall is enough to witness that even they can’t stand the misery they cause in their own depleted and dark minds so they try to pound it out with the help of their satanic god the devil. The world would do well to rid of them in a simultaneous fashion down a cliff and into the sea once and for all because their misery IS our constant hell. Let the One they hate(d), the One they mocked, the One they scourged, the One they took silver pieces for, the One that is coming back very very soon with all the Judgement and Power invested Him…the only Christ who was risen from the dead by the power of the Holy Spirit to sit at the Right Hand of The Almighty that has SEPARATED the true sheep from the goats, Who holds the key to Hades, Lord Jesus the Christ WILL with one sweep, eradicate the enemies of God once and for all. Amen.
What you said , Sparrow about what the Jews do at the Stone Wall is said by some to represent intercourse. But I can’t say for sure, but it may be a symbolic religious gesture.
Sparrow, look for the book : Judaism in Action. it is written by an anonymous person and you’ll find that many ,over the decades before us , have known and exposed the Jews. And that is to our benefit . It has many quotes.
So now they can have a long time award in a very specific field of endeavor renamed because the person was or may have been anti-jew?
Where does this nonsense end? And just how many people do the jews have combing through every book, article, conversation, transcript, net posting, and whatever, of the last 100 years, searching for any hint of anti-semitism? A shame these people can’t actually do some productive work.
Apparently the “vaccines” deliberately target the ACE2 receptor of European people, and to a much lesser extent, black people, and do not touch those from the tribe.
And we know who runs and most probably owns all the “vaccine” companies.
In 1998 Israeli Jews were caught developing ethnic bioweapons: Israel’s Ethnic Weapon?, Wired, November 16, 1998 https://www.wired.com/1998/11/israels-ethnic-weapon/
Missing original: Israel Planning ‘Ethnic’ Bomb as Saddam Caves In by Uzi Mahnaimi and Marie Colvin, Additional reporting: Matthew Campbell in Washington, Hugh McManners, Originally posted in the London Times (November 16, 1998), disappeared from its original and archive link, http://www.thetimes.co.uk/section/0,,158,00.html, and also disappeared from several sites that mirrored the article.
Another secondary source: Israel is Developing ‘Ethnic Bomb’ for Growing Biological Weapons Arsenal by Mark Weber, The Journal of Historical Review, Nov. – Dec. 1998 (Vol. 17, No. 6), pages 24-25. http://www.ihr.org/jhr/v17/v17n6p24_Weber.html
Expectedly, the Jews did not abandon their ethnic bioweapons project. The Zio-con strategists’ Project For A New American Century (of “new Pearl Harbor” infamy) explicitly included race-specific bioweapons on their predictive programming wish list. See their “Rebuilding America’s Defenses” document published in 2000 at page 60: https://archive.org/details/RebuildingAmericasDefenses/page/n71/mode/2up/search/specific+genotypes
“And advanced forms of biological warfare that can ‘target’ specific genotypes may transform biological warfare from the realm of terror to a politically useful tool.”
JEW FLU http://judaism.is/jew-flu.html
Covid-19 and the related SARS-CoV2 enter the body by attaching to specific lung cell receptors, Angiotensin Converting Enzyme Type 2 receptors, “ACE2,” receptors that may make Asians more susceptible.
“ACE2 has been shown to be a co-receptor for viral entry for SARS-CoV-2 with increasing evidence that it has a protracted role in the pathogenesis of COVID-19.”
COVID-19 and Angiotensin-Converting Enzyme Inhibitors and Angiotensin Receptor Blockers
What Is the Evidence? by Ankit B. Patel, MD, PhD & Ashish Verma, MBBS, JAMA. 2020;323(18):1769-1770. doi:10.1001/jama.2020.4812 https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2763803
Early evidence suggests that Asians, and especially Asian males, may express the ACE2 receptor with much higher density than, for example, Causcasian females and may account for increased Asian susceptibility to Covid-19.
Single-cell RNA expression profiling of ACE2, the putative receptor of Wuhan 2019-nCov
by Yu Zhao, Zixian Zhao, Yujia Wang, Yueqing Zhou, Yu Ma, Wei Zuo
doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2020.01.26.919985 https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.01.26.919985v1
Spike Protein Less Likely to Infect Jews
[…] are adversaries to all men” ~ 1 Thessalonians 2:14-15
https://www.bitchute.com/video/KVkFFcJZV1fo/
Thank you for the links (as usual), Al.
Stop spreading the bioweapon lie.
Covid was not a deadly contagion. If it was, it would have wiped out the homeless and people packed into prisons.
It was a weaponized scam, with hospitals paid to kill people who had pneumonia. And many people came down with pneumonia because of stress and the toxic conditions around them.
An article or video was on the internet of the Jews in control of the four vaccine companies.
The hard thing to figure out is that there are many other groups and invisible people involved, but why are the Jews so prominent and made out to be the only one’s behind the scheme, unless they have taken, been given or created the scheme.
Just like surfing and other extreme sports….whites dominate, but Jews think it’s “too white” and needs “diversity”. They want to spoil anything that’s pure, and then they cry “antisemitism” when whites don’t want them around to ruin everything.
Jews were not wanted in white country clubs, but they insisted anyway. Why would you want to be somewhere where you are not wanted? Why not start your own Jewish country club? We know why….
Europeans are the only race that understands and truly loves mountains. They developed mountain climbing. Catholic monks were the first mountain climbers and they could endure the tremendous rigors because they possessed a devotion to asceticism.
Mountains are visible proof of a transcendent Creator. The Holy Spirit infused Christians with a love of mountains and this survives even in our pagan world.
That’s why Jews can’t climb ’em. They are at war with God.
Right, Aryan-Israelites have a strong tradition of returning to nature and their pastoral roots as the original farmers and shepherds. Jews are city dwellers, cosmopolitans, terrified of nature because it is beyond their control. The exceptions prove the rule.
As Paul tells us — we, Christians, look to the God’s creation for proof of His existence and glory,
“For since the creation of the world God’s invisible qualities—his eternal power and divine nature—have been clearly seen, being understood from what has been made, so that people are without excuse.” (Romans 1:20)
Wait till we release our really lethal virus on youse Goyims, one that will kill hundreds of millions, maybe billions, with the only cure coming from Israel.
Then youse Goyims will show proper respect to your Jew Masters!
Or better yet, take our poison while our people take saline shots.
Stop spreading virus myths.
They cannot kill millions with a virus. If they could, they would have done it ages ago.
If human beings were that susceptible to contagion, they would no longer exist. Period.