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Nandu Jayal and his cousin Nalni Dhar joined Doon school in 1935. His father Pandit Chakra Dhar Jayal, was Diwan of the hill state of Tehri Garhwal.<ref>{{Cite web|title=A. E. Foot Alpine Journal Vol. 63. No. 297, 1958, 231-232|url=https://www.alpinejournal.org.uk/Contents/Contents_1958.html|url-status=live|access-date=2021-08-07|website=www.alpinejournal.org.uk}}</ref> He stayed in the school for nine years, where he also became  head of his House and captain of school boxing.  In 1940 [[R. L. Holdsworth]] joined the Doon school as headmaster and became Nandu's housemaster.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Alpine Journal - Contents 1958|url=https://www.alpinejournal.org.uk/Contents/Contents_1958.html|access-date=2021-08-07|website=www.alpinejournal.org.uk}}</ref> Nandu was fascinated with Holdsworth's interests in mountaineering and his mountaineering career started while he was a student at [[The Doon School]], where his teachers encouraged his interest in climbing as a way to tame his somewhat unruly nature.<ref name="hills to climb">''For Hills to Climb'', The Doon School Contribution to Mountaineering – The Early Years. Edited by Aamir Ali. Pp 421. [Published by The Doon School Old Boys' Society</ref><ref name="dosco record">''The Dosco Record'', Second Edition 1987.  Compiled by Col. P.C. Khanna, published by the Doon School Old Boys Society</ref> He accompanied Holdsworth in many expeditions.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Alpine Journal - Contents 1958|url=https://www.alpinejournal.org.uk/Contents/Contents_1958.html|access-date=2021-08-07|website=www.alpinejournal.org.uk}}</ref>
Nandu Jayal and his cousin Nalni Dhar joined Doon school in 1935. His father Pandit Chakra Dhar Jayal, was Diwan of the hill state of Tehri Garhwal.<ref>{{Cite web|title=A. E. Foot Alpine Journal Vol. 63. No. 297, 1958, 231-232|url=https://www.alpinejournal.org.uk/Contents/Contents_1958.html|url-status=live|access-date=2021-08-07|website=www.alpinejournal.org.uk}}</ref> He stayed in the school for nine years, where he also became  head of his House and captain of school boxing.  In 1940 [[R. L. Holdsworth]] joined the Doon school as headmaster and became Nandu's housemaster.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Alpine Journal - Contents 1958|url=https://www.alpinejournal.org.uk/Contents/Contents_1958.html|access-date=2021-08-07|website=www.alpinejournal.org.uk}}</ref> Nandu was fascinated with Holdsworth's interests in mountaineering and his mountaineering career started while he was a student at [[The Doon School]], where his teachers encouraged his interest in climbing as a way to tame his somewhat unruly nature.<ref name="hills to climb">''For Hills to Climb'', The Doon School Contribution to Mountaineering – The Early Years. Edited by Aamir Ali. Pp 421. [Published by The Doon School Old Boys' Society</ref><ref name="dosco record">''The Dosco Record'', Second Edition 1987.  Compiled by Col. P.C. Khanna, published by the Doon School Old Boys Society</ref> He accompanied Holdsworth in many expeditions.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Alpine Journal - Contents 1958|url=https://www.alpinejournal.org.uk/Contents/Contents_1958.html|access-date=2021-08-07|website=www.alpinejournal.org.uk}}</ref>


Jayal's first major expedition as a 16-year-old schoolboy was to the Awar Valley above [[Badrinath]], reaching 6,000 meters.<ref name="alpinejournal">{{cite journal|last=Anderson|first=Richard|title=Climbing with the Doon School|journal=Alpine Journal|year=2001|pages=197–201|url=http://www.alpinejournal.org.uk/Contents/Contents_2001_files/AJ%202001%20197-201%20Anderson%20Doon%20School.pdf|accessdate=21 February 2022}}</ref> Other climbs, while still at Doon, included [[Trisul]] with [[Gurdial Singh (mountaineer)|Gurdial Singh]], a teacher from Doon. While Singh went on to reach the peak of Trisul, where he performed a headstand [[asana]] to honor the Hindu god [[Shiva]], Jayal noted his own feelings in lyrical terms: "The grass on which we camped was like a cushion sprinkled with tiny mauve [[primula]] and the gentle lapping of the running water recalled melodies from Beethoven’s Pastoral Symphony. I confess a desire to bring my efforts to an honourable conclusion here – as long as somebody got to the top – and revel in this bracing and saner altitude."<ref>https://www.alpinejournal.org.uk/Contents/Contents_1964_files/AJ%201964%20201-210%20Gibson%20Himalaya.pdf {{Bare URL PDF|date=March 2022}}</ref>
Jayal's first major expedition as a 16-year-old schoolboy was to the Awar Valley above [[Badrinath]], reaching 6,000 meters.<ref name="alpinejournal">{{cite journal|last=Anderson|first=Richard|title=Climbing with the Doon School|journal=Alpine Journal|year=2001|pages=197–201|url=http://www.alpinejournal.org.uk/Contents/Contents_2001_files/AJ%202001%20197-201%20Anderson%20Doon%20School.pdf|accessdate=21 February 2012}}</ref> Other climbs, while still at Doon, included [[Trisul]] with [[Gurdial Singh (mountaineer)|Gurdial Singh]], a teacher from Doon. While Singh went on to reach the peak of Trisul, where he performed a headstand [[asana]] to honor the Hindu god [[Shiva]], Jayal noted his own feelings in lyrical terms: "The grass on which we camped was like a cushion sprinkled with tiny mauve [[primula]] and the gentle lapping of the running water recalled melodies from Beethoven’s Pastoral Symphony. I confess a desire to bring my efforts to an honourable conclusion here – as long as somebody got to the top – and revel in this bracing and saner altitude."<ref>https://www.alpinejournal.org.uk/Contents/Contents_1964_files/AJ%201964%20201-210%20Gibson%20Himalaya.pdf {{Bare URL PDF|date=March 2022}}</ref>


He left the school  in December 1944 and was immediately selected in the Army as he was given high rating by the selection committee board due to his outstanding interest in training subordinates . It was a remarkable transformation of Doon's most delinquent boy who had become a "gentle, perfect knight".<ref name="hills">[http://www.himalayanclub.org/journal/book-reviews-9/ ''For Hills to Climb'', reviewed in the Himalayan Club]</ref>
He left the school  in December 1944 and was immediately selected in the Army as he was given high rating by the selection committee board due to his outstanding interest in training subordinates . It was a remarkable transformation of Doon's most delinquent boy who had become a "gentle, perfect knight".<ref name="hills">[http://www.himalayanclub.org/journal/book-reviews-9/ ''For Hills to Climb'', reviewed in the Himalayan Club]</ref>
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