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Gurudongmar
At 5210 meters (17100 feet) Gurudongmar is one of the highest lakes in the world. Now, in late spring, it is a bowl full of water in the middle of a high desert within 5 km of the Chinese Tibetan border. Looking south west, as in this photo, one sees the Kanchenjunga range.
Stories which relate this lake to Padmasambhava and his rituals of tantric buddhism also say that part of the lake never freezes in winter. This is just a story. The clear and still water is sweet, which means that the lake could freeze.
The last grass and wildflowers straggle away about 200 meters below the lake. Around the lake one sees only a faint covering of moss and lichen: apparently because of the lack of oxygen. Soon after this photo was taken I had a touch of hypoxia and had to retreat about 300 meters down to recover. However, there are birds: sparrows and two more species which I didn't have the time to identify. What food chain leads up to them?
Gurudongmar
At 5210 meters (17100 feet) Gurudongmar is one of the highest lakes in the world. Now, in late spring, it is a bowl full of water in the middle of a high desert within 5 km of the Chinese Tibetan border. Looking south west, as in this photo, one sees the Kanchenjunga range.
Stories which relate this lake to Padmasambhava and his rituals of tantric buddhism also say that part of the lake never freezes in winter. This is just a story. The clear and still water is sweet, which means that the lake could freeze.
The last grass and wildflowers straggle away about 200 meters below the lake. Around the lake one sees only a faint covering of moss and lichen: apparently because of the lack of oxygen. Soon after this photo was taken I had a touch of hypoxia and had to retreat about 300 meters down to recover. However, there are birds: sparrows and two more species which I didn't have the time to identify. What food chain leads up to them?