Sinking of the Aurora del Titicaca

Send us Fan Mail A shipwreck nearly three miles above sea level sounds like a punchline until you realize it’s a real record held by a real lake. We’re heading to Lake Titicaca, the icy, oxygen thin giant of the Andes, where the Aurora del Titicaca went down near Amantani in the 1870s and then somehow took most of its documentation with it. No clean inquiry. No reliable death toll. Not even a single version of the story that everyone agrees on. We trace how colonial era trade pressure ...