Name: 24hrs in the Highest City on Earth with No Laws (my scariest travel experience)
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We made it to La Rinconada and it's by far the sketchiest place that I've ever been to.

Fights breaking out everywhere, people giving us the looks as we walked around.

I don't think I've ever been as worried going to filming.

I'll give you another update as soon as we leave.

In our pursuit to explore the most unique and extreme places on our planet that tell meaningful stories about them, this one may be the riskiest of them all.

Welcome to La Rinconada, the highest human settlement on Earth and heart of the Peruvian Andes Mountains.

Here, amidst the icy peaks and beneath the frigid surface lies a tale of contrasts where the dreams of fortune clash with the harsh realities of life.

At 17,000ft, 5,200 meters above sea level, 50,000 people have come here in the most unforgiving conditions in hopes to find gold and other precious minerals.

In its battle frontier like setting, miners live and work under the brutal Cachoe Rio system, trading labor for the chance to find gold.

Under this system, they mine for 30 days without payment, only to get a chance to mine for themselves for one day and often get exploited in the process by the mine owners.

Yet the promise of gold continues to draw people from all corners of Peru, reflecting the human capacity to endure hardship in the pursuit of wealth.

Today, Amar takes us all the way to Lima, Peru, to begin his expedition to La Rinconada along with our cinematographer friend, Corey.

And let me tell you, they had absolutely no plan and no contact to reach once they got there.

I watched a few videos that I had downloaded on the town, on the plane.

We go around the world and we come to very interesting places.

I think we just managed to secure our driver, who's just the driver we met at the airport, give us a decent price and just be with us the whole time.

Every DM that I've sent to someone that we're going to Rinko, everybody's like, immediate response, like, whoa, be careful.

Yeah, Even him when we were walking in, he was just like, yeah, it's very dangerous there.

That's the part that is worrying me the most, is like our physical state.

Waking up after tomorrow taking in 50% less oxygen for a whole night.

We're doing a quick pit stop to just get an oxygen meter and some oxygen tanks just because from everything, everything I've watched so far it looked pretty rough.

The higher they went up in altitude on the drive, the more Amar started feeling the invisible challenge of letting Kannada creeping in.

Hypoxia, I feel like already just like very heavy headed.

At altitudes exceeding 17,000ft, the air holds less oxygen and each breath we take delivers fewer of those vital molecules to our bodies.

The brain, the most oxygen hungry organ, suffers first.

A clear warning from our body that it is struggling to sustain its basic functions.

Prolonged exposure without proper acclimatization can lead to as the body scrambles to adapt, increasing heart rate, blood pressure and breathing to compensate for the scarcity of oxygen.

It's a survival response to an extreme environment that if not mitigated can be a fatal health risk.

Luckily, due to his previous climbing and skydiving experience, Amar knows what to look out for to identify if he's hypoxic or not.

This trip was particularly tricky because obviously we needed the guidance of some locals here in Peru.

And I think I posted on Instagram like two or three times but I think how sketchy.

All the videos and articles depicted this place just made me realize that I like I wanted take this risk with the least amount of people.

We don't know what we're getting ourselves into and I didn't want to bring someone into something where I just couldn't guarantee their safety.

Last time I was at altitude it was when I was climbing Mount Whitney for my 27th birthday.

But we're going two and a half thousand feet higher than the peak of Mount Whitney, which is just absolutely wild.

And our contact who's one of the miners who was going to be up there, he basically just didn't make it up from, from Lima.

He was supposed to, to fly out but we'll, we'll get a fine.

We'll find, we'll find someone new, a new face.

We're about an hour and a half away from Let.

Safe to say that Christian is fully immersed with the vibes right now.

I Don't think it's affecting my vitals yet.

But that's not how hypoxia works, Christian.

Christian, is this your first time in Rinconada?

Fly with caution before I even took off it.

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