Chinese female worker swims across high-altitude lake in 17 hours

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Chinese female worker swims across high-altitude lake in 17 hours

Yin Xiaoling, a middle-aged Chinese female worker and swim amateur, successfully swam across a high-altitude lake in 17 hours and eight minutes on Sunday in southwestern China's Yunnan Province.

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Yin Xiaoling, a middle-aged Chinese female worker and swim amateur, successfully swam across a high-altitude lake in 17 hours and eight minutes on Sunday in southwestern China's Yunnan Province.

Yin, 40, swam 36.5 kilometers across the Fuxianhu Lake, which is located some 60 km south of the provincial capital Kunming and is about 1,800 meters above sea level.

With the water averaging 87 meters in depth and 158 meters as the deepest measurement, it is the second deepest fresh-water lakein China.

Yin started the swim from the lake's west bank at 4 p.m. (Beijing time) on Saturday and reached her destination at the northern bank at 9:08 a.m. on Sunday.

The accurate data of her swimming time and distance were figured out through the satellite-based Global Position System.

During the long-distance swim, Yin overcame various difficulties, such as strong winds, huge waves, coldness in watersand the densely-laid fishing nets and hooks.

Right after the adventure, Yin received a medical check-up in anearby hospital, and the doctors announced that she was in good health.

Yin, who works in the Dali Cigarette Factory, began to practiceswimming at the age of 28. In 2001, Yin swam 38 kilometers across Er Hai, also a high-altitude lake in Kunming, in the converse direction of the tide.

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