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Tilicho Lake

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Tilicho Lake

Tilicho Lake (Nepali: तिलिचो ताल; pronounced [tilit͡so]) is a glacial lake in Manang district of Nepal at an elevation of 4,919 m (16,138 ft) in the Annapurna range of the Himalayas. Another source lists the elevation of the lake as 4,949 m (16,237 ft). According to the Nepali Department of Hydrolog

y and Meteorology, no aquatic organism has been recorded in the lake as of 2003. Tilicho Lake was the site of the highest ever altitude scuba dives. A Russian diving team, consisting of Andrei Andryushin, Denis Bakin, and Maxim Gresko, conducted a scuba dive in the lake in 2000.

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