Chola Tsho

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Chola Tsho (Lake Chola). Oct 23, 2009.

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What is the elevation

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

Posted Dec 21, 2009 11:31 pm


	Rafa Bartolome	Re: What is the elevation
	Hasn't voted	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.
		Posted Dec 22, 2009 2:27 pm

Bursting glacial lakes in Nepal

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Posted Dec 19, 2010 10:34 am


	Rafa Bartolome	Re: Bursting glacial lakes in Nepal
	Hasn't voted	thanks, it's interesting
		Posted Dec 19, 2010 2:07 pm

interesting name

Voted 10/10

Chola Tsho literally means 'lake - pass' lake

Posted Dec 19, 2010 10:37 am


	Rafa Bartolome	Re: interesting name
	Hasn't voted	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.
		Posted Dec 19, 2010 2:06 pm


	dmiki	Re: interesting name
	Voted 10/10	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"
		Posted Dec 19, 2010 3:31 pm