Tilicho Lake
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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 Hydrology 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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