Personality and Conflict With The Alpine Club
He was a railway engineer for most of his life - well educated, and insufferably arrogant (some said). He was not one to mince words, and a long feud with the Alpine Club caused many of its members to denigrate him. Crowley reports that anti-semitism may have played a role, and quotes Morley Roberts as calling Eckenstein a "dirty East End Jew" in Zermatt.
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