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Noondueler - Dec 21, 2009 11:31 pm - Voted 10/10

What is the elevation

of this lake? It must be one of the highest in the world, no?

Rafa Bartolome - Dec 22, 2009 2:27 pm - Hasn't voted

Re: What is the elevation

according with my map the height is 4590m. Yes, it's very high.
In this list
highest lakes
it don't appears but the author wrote only a lake in Nepal and you can put it probably around the first 50 highest or so.

dmiki - Dec 19, 2010 10:34 am - Voted 10/10

Bursting glacial lakes in Nepal

http://www.theuiaa.org/bursting_glacial_lakes_in_nepal.html

Rafa Bartolome - Dec 19, 2010 2:07 pm - Hasn't voted

Re: Bursting glacial lakes in Nepal

thanks, it's interesting

dmiki - Dec 19, 2010 10:37 am - Voted 10/10

interesting name

Chola Tsho literally means 'lake - pass' lake

Rafa Bartolome - Dec 19, 2010 2:06 pm - Hasn't voted

Re: interesting name

I don't know, tsho is lake but cho is not lake, it's the same beggining of Cho Oyu and Cho La. Cho La is the col. The peak over the col is call Cholatse, because Tse is peak. La is pass and it's curious the use of pass as "Cho La Pass" in a lot of places and maps... if la=pass, cho la pass is "cho pass pass", he,he, in this case it's a double pass.

dmiki - Dec 19, 2010 3:31 pm - Voted 10/10

Re: interesting name

Hola Rafa!

I can't decide. Here's the somewhat conflicting info I found:

- Cho Oyu means Turquoise God(dess) in Tibetan
- in Tibetan 'cho' is lake, 'la' is pass, and 'tse' is peak so Cholatse means literally "lake pass peak"
- Cho Oyo means “Turquoise lake”
- Oyu means "turquoise"
- Tibetan cho, "highest," "goddess," and gyu, "turquoise"

Rafa Bartolome - Dec 19, 2010 3:47 pm - Hasn't voted

Re: interesting name

yes, it's difficult, thanks

to post!