Living in La Rinconada | The Highest Town on Earth, Paid in Sacks of Rock | 4K Travel Documentary

La Rinconada, Peru sits above 5,000 m, where miners work a month unpaid for one or two days of gold. Why do they stay? High in the Andes, the town widely considered the highest permanent settlement on Earth runs on a single bet: about a month of work for a day or two of luck. This 4K gold mining documentary follows the miners, the women outside the tunnels and the gold itself, from a glacier called the Sleeping Beauty to refineries on the other side of the world. It is a look at life in Peru's high Andes: how people live in La Rinconada, and why so many keep coming back. CHAPTERS 0:00 A Cruel Lottery 2:12 A Paycheck in a Sack 7:01 Half a Breath 11:33 Fifty Latrines 15:39 The Women Outside the Tunnels 19:52 The Sleeping Beauty 23:25 Where Your Gold Goes 28:27 The Town Nobody Can Count 32:44 Suerte 37:07 The Bet MORE FROM HOW PEOPLE LIVE ▶ Living in Equatorial Guinea | Africa’s Spanish-Speaking Nation: Where Did the Oil Go?: [   • Living in Equatorial Guinea | Africa’s Spa...  ] ▶ Living in Seine-Saint-Denis | The Truth About the Suburb That Raised Mbappé: [   • Living in Seine-Saint-Denis | Where Mbappé...  ] ▶ Playlist "Why People Stay": [   / @calebowensullivan  ] 🔔 Subscribe for the next place the headlines skip. SOURCES This film draws on reporting and research from National Geographic, Reuters, The New Yorker, Science, Frontiers in Physiology, The Journal of Physiology, the University of Antwerp (IOB), Peru's Geophysical Institute (IGP), Peru's national statistics institute (INEI), Solidaridad, the Alliance for Responsible Mining, Sala Negra and La República. Key sources: National Geographic (2021): https://www.nationalgeographic.com/ma... National Geographic (2009): https://www.nationalgeographic.com/ma... Sala Negra / ILO: https://www.ilo.org/resource/news/cac... University of Antwerp (IOB): https://repository.uantwerpen.be/docs... Peru's Geophysical Institute (IGP): https://repositorio.igp.gob.pe/bitstr... A full source list is available on request. This video presents publicly reported statistics and documented events. Population figures for La Rinconada are estimates and vary widely by source. Findings about the gold supply chain are attributed to the journalists who reported them; no wrongdoing is alleged beyond what those reports and the named authorities state. This film includes references to exploitation and loss of life. Health information is for general interest, not medical advice. Views and quotes belong to the people and institutions named, not to this channel. How People Live tells the story of the places headlines skip and travel shows avoid — through data, documentary footage, and the people who actually live there. #HowPeopleLive #LaRinconada #PeruDocumentary #GoldMining #HighestTownOnEarth