24hrs in the Highest City on Earth with No Laws (my scariest travel experience)

Hi T Boogie, just wanted to give you a quick update. We arrive in Lenada and it is by far the sketchiest place I have ever been to. There are fights everywhere, people looking at us while we were walking, yeah, I don't think so. Have I ever been so worried about going to film. I'll give you another update as soon as we leave, love you friend in our quest to explore the most unique and extreme places on our planet to tell meaningful stories about them. This may be the riskiest of all, welcome to L rinonada, the

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human settlement on Earth in the heart of the Peruvian Andes, here, amid the frozen peaks and Beneath the frozen surface, lies a story contrast where Fortune's dreams collide with the harsh realities of life in 177,000.

At 5,200 m above sea level, 50,000 people have come here in the most unforgiving conditions in the hope of finding gold and other precious minerals on their battle frontier, such as making miners live and work under the brutal catoro system, exchanging labor for the opportunity to find gold low In this system, they mine for 30 days without pay just to have the opportunity to mine themselves for a day and are often exploited in the process by the mine owners, but The promise of gold continues to attract people from all corners of Peru, reflecting human capa

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. To endure difficulties in the search for wealth today Omar takes us to Lima Peru to begin his expedition to Ladin Gonada together with our cinematographer friend Cory and let me tell you that they had absolutely no plan or contact with whom to reach once they got there.

I saw some videos that he had downloaded in the

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on the plane quite scary, we go around the world and get to very interesting places, yes, yes, he doesn't speak English. Okay, Christian, we have a question. Can you drive to Ron? See, yes, as I understand it, at least it's see, see, okay, I think we managed to ensure that our driver, who is just the driver we met at the airport, gives us a decent price and only SAW us the whole time, we're off to the promising start every DM. that I sent someone that we're going to Rinko, everyone's immediate response was like, be careful, yeah, even him when we were walking in, he was like, yeah, it's very dangerous there, like that's the part I'm worried about.

The most it's like our physical state waking up the day after tomorrow taking 50% less oxygen for an entire night is very different than jez, yeah, we're making a quick stop to get an oxygen meter and some oxygen tanks just because of everything . I've seen it so far, it seemed pretty hard and not even hard when you get there, it's like hard on the way up there, so yeah, the more they went up in altitude on the way, the more Amar started to feel the invisible challenge of letting the gonad Crawling in hypoxia, but I feel like my head is very heavy.

At altitudes above 177,000 feet, the air contains less oxygen and each breath we take delivers fewer of those vital molecules to our bodies. The brain, the organ most hungry for oxygen, undergoes the first mental functions. Slow decisions become more difficult. A clear warning from our body that it is struggling to maintain its basic functions. Prolonged exposure without adequate weatherization can cause the body to struggle to adapt to increased heart rate, blood pressure, and breathing to compensate for oxygen shortages. This is not Simple discomfort is a survival response to an extreme environment that, if not mitigated, can be a fatal health risk.

Fortunately, due to his previous

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in climbing and skydiving, Amar knows what to look for to identify if he is hypoxic or not. This stretch was particularly tricky because we obviously needed the guidance of some locals here in Peru and I think I posted on Instagram two or three times, but I think how incomplete all the videos and articles describing this place are made me realize that I want take this risk. The least of us don't know what we're getting into and I didn't want to take anyone into something I simply couldn't guarantee their safety last time it was at an altitude when I was climbing Mt.

Whitney for my 27th birthday, but we are going to 2,000 feet and 1,500 feet higher than the peak of Mount Whitney, which is absolutely wild, we have a driver, no translator and our contact, who was one of the miners who was going to be on top . There basically didn't make it from Lima, I was supposed to fly, but we'll see each other we'll find out we'll find we'll find someone new a quick new face, lunch, we're about an hour and a half away from let each hello or it's not Safe to say Christian is fully immersed in Vibes right now Bo strip, what do we have here that doesn't sound good?

I'm 87, you're supposed to be 97 and above I don't think it's affecting my vitals yet but that's not how hxy Christi let's see wow 92 92 hey hey hey hey no me crazy Christian is this your first time in in ronada we won't see each other no oh you were that's good Drone already says fly at high altitude with caution because it even took off he said that well I think I can safely say that this is the first time I don't feel jealous about missing a trip before you see when we

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and finish . in the middle of nowhere, which happens a lot, we really need our phones to navigate to translate and message our producer Melly for help and for that we obviously can't rely on the hotel's free Wii, which often doesn't work . or use data roaming that will end up costing us a fortune, that is why our secret all this time has been to use something called aolo, it is the first eim card store in the world, which is a digital SIM card that solves all the problems of high roaming bills. and giving you access to a digital SIM card and right now they are offering you $3 off your first eim card when you scan it or use yes.

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I really mean, if you're not using this while traveling, what are you doing? You know, okay, now go back to Peru, the last city before you feel like you. I feel like yeah, I'm so nauseous right now that two are heading towards a second Chrisan Driver just told us that we're about to see the glacier for the first time. Wow, as they were initially blown away by the beauty of the mountains. The harsh reality of the surroundings quickly interrupted the astonishment. This has to be one of the saddest arrivals I've ever had to a place from just beautiful views on the way up and then this sea of ​​rubbish everywhere, I mean.

That's what happens when 50,000 people settle somewhere they shouldn't, without the necessary infrastructure to live there and with illegal mining activity everywhere, man, this breaks my heart, oh oh, the first minor we saw really looking for gold. There was a woman on the side of the road and I think women are not allowed to enter the mines so some women here just take the job of picking up the remains of the miners and searching for the gold they might have lost for hours . wow wow nothing nothing big wow I see, I saw a little bit of gold yes oh yes yes yes and how much would this be below thank you yes the first impression for me is that it is much bigger than I thought.

I mean, I knew that about 50,000 people live here. but I guess I didn't like imagining what that would look like on the side of a mountain. Well, there are parts where people are temporary residents of the city, so they just come for days or months of mining and then leave, but they say. it's 20 to 30,000 people and then there's the main city which is more permanent with buildings and then there's these like 10 houses so yeah lingon is essentially the closest thing to a lawless city and they quickly realized that filming here was going to be a challenge Amar then saw some friendly looking miners from a distance and to his great surprise one of them spoke English dangerous yes dangerous dangerous the attitude towards here is uh 5200 M of L how is your oxygen level ? to go get the oxygen meter for a second, yeah, okay, thanks Moment of Truth, yeah, I loved your vibe.

I went up and approached him and he said hello, nice to meet you. Speaks English wow pretty well 9 93 93 76 76 yes wow except me and my heart rate is 111 we got here the first day so hard L oxygen and then wow not in 3 4 days your body just gets used to it how old are you? I am H 27 years old 27 yes, you knew that coming here is dangerous it is bad for your health all these things true yes why did you still make the decision to come here to Cusco the protest about the president affected no and then there are no tourists anything absolutely In Cusco there is no work for us either so me so after the pandemic it became really bad yes bad me here yes yes I like it yes a dangerous little man respect respect here is more uh yes yes criminals yes yes basically he is like the outcast of society I think they just end up gravitating towards a place like this where you know, you end up with some pretty tough personalities, luckily, these aren't some of those tough personalities that we like just walking around before, we were able to, we were able to feel that it wasn't, it wasn't the best environment, could we plan? for tonight no, no plan, no plan, no plan, if you can be our local tour guide and we will be happy to pay you, it would be amazing to be able to see it through your eyes so we're not just walking around with a camera you know We want to be with the locals and your smile is just amazing.

So yes, thank you, of course, could we go for a walk? Tell us, okay, this is where they do this, around this place, yes, over here, yes of. Of course, but we're going to the club tonight, yeah, yeah, cool lady, yeah, okay, come on, see you tonight, welcome to R. Wow, how much would a piece like this cost and would it be like a day , a day of work for you or uh a week or maybe in a day or in an hour or half an hour is the pen what is your luckiest day best day 15 G 15 or 50 uh 50 50 W 50 g it depends it depends mineral no sometimes ad or sometimes I don't pray to No, it's heavier than it seems very expensive, very expensive, so thank you very much, I appreciate it as does everyone who works here how much gold do you think each day? maybe 1 kogam 1 kilo or 2 kilos less than 10 kg yeah TR is like uh guys you know people wow it's not usual right it's very weird pringo you know what they were saying about the show on uh , only here there are three showers, hot showers in total in the entire city yes, for 50,000 people, yes, three hot showers yes, for example, on this street and on other streets only one shower on the street no more showers wowo hello hello This is a machine not a big stone, grind gr I see, I see, I see what water and the and Mercury Mercury is fine and Mercury is is this Why do people have a drinking water problem here?

Mercury is mixed with Lake Pel explains to us here that lawn is essentially a time bomb, since the industry that supports it is also its greatest threat. There is intensive use of mercury in gold extraction. process that has serious environmental repercussions that contaminate land and water with consequences that go far beyond the city's borders. It is also highly toxic and leads to serious health problems for miners and the community at large, including neurological and reproductive damage in all lakes and streams of water. around have been contaminated and have become completely undrinkable the name is aita aita aita is similar like a woman the woman is sleeping H like the face and yes maybe you don't see mother

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many years ago the glacier and everything in this place now for years of pollution two years less Glacier less Glacier less Glacier because of pollution because people destroyed Mother Earth yes no how and how do you feel being here and working in mining but you also care about Mother Earth and you and you no I like the fact that you have uh I recommended it to my friend please don't leave trash or don't pollute no nothing yes we're going to put in the bresh no don't leave it because other people don't respect no yes drinking that plastic every B this is a problem no for me it's no good yes IM Magic oh first of all I can already I can see it on my face I'mgetting so swollen I just read and it was 66% so now we're in the danger zone yeah that's not healthy eh no I'm worried I'm worried about myself too.

Amar's oxygen levels were dropping to an alarming level. They had to monitor him very closely to make sure no serious symptoms arose. and be prepared to descend quickly if necessary so it's been here for 8 years what was your first memory of getting here accident on the mountain the rock the first thing you remember here is just an accident that Happ yeah how often do you see people die people? here almost every day or almost almost every day people die almost every day Lina and here in the disk it's dangerous because that comes to know and then wow it's good here wow and when was the last time you saw someone die on other streets wow okay then we have to be careful once the sun rises this camera falls with it no, don't worry because yes, I will help you with everything, yes, my brother, brother, for example, the GU, you are a magnet for good people, you attract good people, yeah, yeah, thanks man, thanks everyone. our purchases Also known as dinner for tonight, we have a TV in the window.

Cory went out to film the city at night but quickly came back after a sketchy interaction, some guy came and tried to focus my lens and he's usually like frisky. I'm like, yeah, sure. it's how you focus and then he said how much and I said, I'm not going to say, I don't know, you know, I don't know and he said, "Okay, grab my water bottle, just start running and I." I like it, but it was just water, so I thought okay, but that's what set the tone for me, right after that I was like, "Okay, I don't want to carry my camera anymore." I do not want to do this.

This is too crazy for me. I'm very grateful, man. We just came with nothing and made friends right away. We were given the clearest instructions not to leave this hotel with anything valuable by telling us that Pry had left quite a mark when we arrived. We are more liberal with our camera, shooting and drone flying than other people who have been here, so our driver Christian was worried that someone had targeted us, so he actually gave us instructions to Pretty solid security and what to do how to get out, you should always be aware of the people behind you, but he says that in half an hour like this outside it's like it's going to change completely and that there will only be drunk people who could stab you at any moment. moment, so if we go out for a quick time without cameras, like with Fidel and his other friends, to see what NTI is here.

It's a pretty dark reality with the number of people who are trafficked, especially women. It is estimated that around 2500 women. coming here from neighboring towns to prostitute, yes, we're going to try to hang with Good Vibes, avoid anything that seems sketchy, but ultimately call early tonight and come back here ready for a night out in the most dangerous city in the world . world look this is one of the sketchiest places I've ever been you feel like eyes and everything you like I don't belong here and I should and shouldn't be here right now wow too wild it's too wild, yes, finishing the night with Fidel he has work tomorrow very early in another mine thank you brother I appreciate it man thank you I appreciate it no goodbye see you later it's so cold that I can't sleep I have a blood oxygen level of 70%, which is a 66% improvement just left, just seen,

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d a very different life than anything we've ever seen before.

Yes, there is always an element of deep gratitude for the life we ​​have been blessed with: simply taking a hot shower. and in order to have a proper roof over your head, the ground here is unbearable to walk on and it's these little things that you start to take for granted, there are so many people who go to the craziest extremes to make it to the end of the week. Just some thoughts with my funny uh I'm going to wear that outfit because it's cold, long johns, some warm socks and we watch the sunrise for some pretty epic drones.

Shots by the one and only Cory Martin. Good morning, it's 5:30, I don't sleep much, in fact, I don't sleep. not at all. I think I had like 45 minutes. I have one of the worst headaches I have ever had. I feel dry everywhere. I counted. I peed. I peed eight times in 9 hours, which is a lot. I wasn't even drinking that much water. I should have seen how Cory is doing. I have a massive headache right now, yes I swear, going to the bathroom felt like my heart rate when when I got back to bed I felt like I had run a mile, yes. and that's when I got a little scared.

I thought, "This is cool, we should do a quick check and it still doesn't beep." some of what's happening in the morning and we're still confusing those people with those long stairs in what we're doing here with the red on the camera like this, I was reflecting on how I feel and and and just This is a very intense experience because of the that we passed and it's like being torn between extremes like waking up at the bottom of a glacier seeing the most beautiful view but being awake during the night and hearing what was going on in the city and hearing gunshots. and hearing people screaming and hearing drunk people breaking bottles, it's this strange paradox between being in one of the most beautiful places you can be on our planet and also seeing the worst that humans can do to our planet. like the third fight to break out in the last half hour, a lot of hostility, yeah, maybe that's our cue, get out of here, you met the nicest guy in town, now leave, oh wow, I think this is the best point of sight.

To really understand how 50,000 people live in the

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city in the world, you could fly the RO 5km to show the scale of what is happening there, apparently where the glacier is is where the most gold is, so They are very eager to go through it, it's really dangerous because there are tunnels inside the mountain beneath the glacier, no one cares about the structural integrity of anything, so it almost feels like a ticking time bomb that the min has been ticking for years. 70 and hundreds of thousands of people have come to do this and it's just layers and layers and layers, without proper inspection.

I pray that people stay safe and that the government does something about it before it becomes so catastrophic, you know, news headline of thousands of miners. just dying because one of the wells collapsed or something. My intention coming out of this is just to remember that you know we're talking about how exciting it's going to be to take a hot shower when we get there so we can like eat to go to the bathroom, you know, all these little things that we throw away in our daily lives and in the ones we don't really think deeply about.

I think trips like this and being in places like this really make you recognize what a blessing it is to live a life where you don't need to do that, you don't need to leave everyone and everything you know to reach the most dangerous circumstances to be able to do a Liv. Thank you all for joining and thank you. Cory, you're the wizard behind the camera behind the Drone and we'll see you next week. We haven't said that in a long time, but we'll see you next week.