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Narendra Dhar Jayal
Indian mountain climber (1927–1958) / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Narendra Dhar Jayal (Nandu Jayal) (25 June 1927 – 28 April 1958) was an Indian mountaineer and an officer of the Bengal Sappers and the Indian Army Corps of Engineers. He is credited with pioneering and patronizing early post-Independence mountaineering in India, and was the founder principal of the Himalayan Mountaineering Institute.[1] He encouraged the youth of India to take up mountaineering, and has been called the "Marco Polo of Indian Mountaineering".[2][3]