A man filmed his amazing walk across the world’s deepest frozen freshwater lake in Russia.
The crystal clear ice allowed the man to film a clear view of the coral, stones and fish at bottom of the lake.
He even walks across cracks which have started to appear at the bottom of the lake and lays on the ice .
The man said it felt like he was ‘looking at a fairyland’ at the bottom of the lake, adding: ‘It felt like I was standing on the water or walking on a very fragile glass. Despite this, I knew it’s safe to be there as the thickness of the ice is about 15cm.’
Lake Baikal is the deepest lake and the biggest reservoir of fresh water on Earth.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YXyAWaDjrMI
The lake is the world’s largest freshwater lake by volume, containing about one-fifth of the fresh water on Earth’s surface, some 5,500 cubic miles (23,000 cubic km).
Plant and animal life in the lake is rich and various. There are between 1,500 and 1,800 animal species at different depths.
The water on the lake contains a high level of oxygen and few minerals, giving it a crystal clear distilled appearance.
The lake stretches for 636 km longwise and 80 km widthwise. The Baikal’s maximum depth is 1,637 m.
