La Rinconada I Gold Mine in The Sky
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 17 ต.ค. 2024
- Over 60,000 people are working in toxic, informal gold mines in the Peruvian city of La Rinconada. We braved the extreme elevation and the subzero temperatures to investigate what life is like in the highest inhabited place on earth.
A Film by Nick Neumann and Walker Dawson
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Written by
Walker Dawson and Nick Neumann
Edited by
Nick Neumann
Hosted by
Walker Dawson
Music in Order of Appearance.
Lago Frias by Gustavo Santaolalla
De Usuahia a La Quiaca by Gustavo Santaolalla
Homebound by Jesse Cook
Mantra for Mieka by Peter Janson (& Friends)
All Gone by Gustavo Santaolalla
Soledad by Jesse Cook
Apertura by Gustavo Santaolalla
The Path (A New Begining) by Gustavo Santaolalla
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This town is like a tragic story on its own. Thank you for this great documentary.
Those kids that are playing soccer must have an insane lung capacity god damn
I would be sending scouts up there to see who has talent
And everywhere else they compete, they're like super soldiers.
Seriously, they are literally 5,100 meters above sea level!!
Divide that by ten
@Sora brown ok "european"
Fantastic work. Thanks for doing this and allowing the rest of us to experience it.
This documentary is amazing. Not even our news channels express so well what is happening in other Peruvian provinces other than Lima.
Este documental es increible. Ni siquiera nuestros canales noticieros expresan tan bien lo que sucede en otras provincias peruanas que no sean Lima.
What’s happening?
Excellent short documentary about La Rinconada. It's incredibly sad to see people live like that especially the children. Thank you for sharing your experience through this documentary.
what's is really interesting is that this town is only about 60 miles from the beginning of the Peruvian/Bolivian Amazon.
Crazy right!
It really is I walked Cotopaxi last year and 7 hours later I was swimming down in the pacific town of pedernales
I can't imagine wanting to drink at that altitude.
One beer and you pass out and piss yourself!
@@mariobastidas3102 You don't get more drunk from drinking on a higher altitude lol
@@tubewoodycool drunk faster
Excelente documental que muestra la realidad de la minería ilegal en mi país. Aplaudo tu vídeo, éxitos y vuelve a Perú por más. Te necesitamos.
Gracias Victor!
fui a trabajar a la edad de 15 años y todo era nieve, no se miraba nada mas que nieve. por eso votaban la basura y la nieve se encargaba de camuflarla ahora la veo y no es nada a comparación de hace años, todo al descubierto.
Thank you so much for making this video, fantastic insight into the challenges and pressures in this beautiful part of Peru. I travel to within a few km's of La Rinconada most years on route to the Sandia valley but have not had the chance to make the detour as yet.
Thanks for making this video.Highly appreciate it
Buen video que marca la realidad del Perú. Conociendo la realidad podemos darnos cuenta donde es que tenemos que apuntar para mejorar como sociedad
Glad you also showed what the women and children have to do in order to survive
Es la realidad en las zonas olvidadas del Perú, que buen aporte. deberían hacer uno de Juliaca.
Broling Andherson Sucari Vamos a hacerlo la proxima vez. Juliaca parece muy intersante
Olvidado sacando excusas eso es re sucio lleno de gente
"Zona olvidada" viven 60 mil personas, no se puede organizar para no vivir en medio de la basura que ellos mismos producen? la mina informal, ok, ese es un mounstro muy grande para gente normal. Pero vivir en medio de la basura de uno mismo y sus vecinos? Eso es dejades y falta de respeto a uno mismo.
@@celdur4635 donde más lo van a botar :v
@@XD-wt2jf
Organizas un servicio que recoja la basura.
En toda ciudad puedes preguntar lo mismo "donde lo vas a botar"?
Bueno te organizas para buscar una solución. Vivir en medio de la inmundicia NO ES la solución.
Thanks for sharing. The snippets of the soccer field and stores made it look nice, but the aerial views did not. How long did you guys stay up there? And if you did, did you stay with a host family?
Its a functioning town. There's actually a lot going on because its one of the few places in the region where people can make money. We just stayed up there for one night. There are lots of cheap hotels to stay near the center of town.
Hey man, awesome videos. I am in a gold mining business myself in Middle East. But we recover gold silver and palladium from electronic wastes. I have always loved to go to La rinaconada, I have some ideas that can turn that city into a major economical center. I read that mine is ooerated by a company, is that the case? There is a pyrolysis plant that takes in all those garbage in and spits out gasoline that can be used to generate power or run a generator.Please advise how can I keep in touch with someone there regarding my ideas?
Sorry I missed this comment. That sounds like a wonderful idea. I've never seen so much waste in my life. Unfortunately we don't have any contacts in the region.
You would probably either have to find the name of the company or perhaps travel there yourself. My wife moved to miami 9 years ago from lima peru. She has never even heard of la rinconada. It looks very isolated place. Good luck my friend.
Friend.. just forget about it. Too isolated.
A real life dystopia
Fascinating documentary, I'm sure the people are wonderful, but I just felt depressed watching this place. Always cold and windy, full of discarded stuff. All grey and no green. I even find the lack of flat, open spaces discomforting - you're always scrambling about on a slope, often as not covered in loose rock. To me that's a kind of torture. My admiration to these people, they are made of stronger stuff than me!
Congratulations for this excellent documentary, honest and informative. Wish you the best.
Thank you Javier
Fantastic music choice! Same songs as in the movie The Motorcycle Diaries
What people will do for a chance at a better life never ceases to amaze...God bless
This is the effect of greed caused by a global system based on money.
Great work guys, beautiful narration as well .. Cheers from India.
Thanks Ashwin! We put a lot of time trying to explain the situation.
The motorcycle diaries soundtracks... love it..
Imagine the hard physical work done there at that altitude... these are some tough peoples!
Thank you guys for this eye opening documentary. If I can suggest one thing is that in similar future documentaries you try to give a brief illustration of the connection between the supplying side (ie. the Peruvian miners) and the consuming side (the consumers of the developed world).
Such injustice is not born out of a vacuum but rather from an unjust dependency created by human beings.
Thank you again
That's ridiculous. The world doesn't need La Rinconada's gold. It's not even a drop in the bucket. The Peruvian government has been trying to shut it down for years. It continues to exist because people are suckers for the "Get Rich Quick" idea, which is a subset of the "Something for Nothing" concept so popular with young Liberals right now.
Super interesting to watch, thanks for making!
I feel sorry for the kids growing up there.
What does it take or what is involved in order to reach La Rinconada de Peru?
FreeWorldAllDay You can catch a small bus from the main bus station in Juliaca. Everyone will warn you not to go, but don't listen to them.
You will instantly be brain damaged
Montaser Kurd- mercury fumes. True
Yet another incredible video, thanks!
"This whole part was covered in snow. And now theres no more snow" Thanks to them.. Todo era nevado, ahora no, por culpa de ellos..
No juzgues, tú no sabes lo que hay detrás de ello, cuando vayas a la sierra profunda vas a ver el contraste tan marcado de vida que hay con la ciudad. Es muy triste.
This is amazing. What a great documentary!
You're on netflix!
🙌
Great music!
I've been to the altiplano in Bolivia. It's similar but this is much harsher. No one can comprehend how hard life is here.
Parker and his crew are gonna start mining there
Nice. Sweet and short... Thanks for making this!
Very interesting and very sad but yet I see happiness there. How do they get food? What powers their electricity and where does it come from? Is there a school there? How do they heat their shelters? Great documentary!
The music to this is beautiful
Excellent piece. What a sad, creepy, filthy place.
@4:33 where is it exactly? I assume in Lima but anyone knows more prescicely?
Thats Larcomar in Lima
Thanks man! Stunning scenery.
Why did you stop making videos?
Life caught up to us. We hope to make more this year.
Subscribed, well done, I believe this is your path in life, documentaries.
thanks man!
Can we take a moment and appreciate that he walked up a glacier in Allstars? Feet must be frozen :D
Craziest part of the video
Really good documentary. Hope you make more of them！
Same here. Love and support from India
Thanks Panda!
thank you for doing this very important documentation
a really great documentary, captures life. amazing job guys! HOw long of a road trip to reach there and how dangerous?
Thanks Chris! It is about a five hour drive from Juliaca. The town itself is not dangerous. Everyone was extremely friendly. From what we were told it is the road that is a problem, because lots of gold travels out Rinconada via that one road, but don't let that stop you!
Peru is not booming, it is Lima in certain areas /classes are booming...Lima is not representing Peru as a whole..it shouldn't but my point is Lima is getting the wealth and not even all Peruvians ( a nationality) is not totally benefitting from that booming wealth...Lots of work to do (half glass full situation) lots of opportunities.
That is exactly what we were trying to point out.
13 WhiteKnights it will be interesting when the international airport opens in Cuzco. Most tourism is based there, not Lima. Hopefully this will balance out the economic benefits among more of the people
The middle class has become stronger, which is a good thing, as it is the class that keeps the economy going. The extremely poor in very remote areas have not benefited much from the country's growth. Be that as it may, about 80% of the population live in urban areas and 70% of the entire population now live on the coast.
I think it's nonsense. I don't think Peru, being some white Frank Lopez English accented country, is a Thrid World country. This video is a rarity. The idea that Peru is some Third World haven is just based on the nonsense that Spaniards, -ez-surnamed people are Latin, non-white with Latin English accented and Italians and Nuyorican are white with Frank Lopez English accents, when it's the other way around.
Really well done documentary!
I love your videos!
Reminds me my beloved peru, someday ill return
Great job guys.
Estoy imprecionada con la calidad de tus videos. Felicidades!
BUEN REPORTAJE AMIGO , SALUDOS DE PERU
Es una pena que las autoridades no hagan nada por mejorar las condiciones de vida de los pobladores de dicho lugar.
si no me equivoco ese lugar es un lugar minero no habitable las personas que eatan ahi solo estan por el oro
why don't the people of La Rinconada, elect a city council to organize the city, regulate the mines and designate a spot for the city dump?
Stupidly
Because everyone's accepted modern slavery. Do you expect any rational decision from these people
They're barely surviving as it is. You think they'd care about law and order?
Boys no point of scrolling down their isn't answers to the homework
Nuqanchik hina tiyasunchik sasa kawsaywan, chum istadu kaptinka, aswan sasa allinchasqa kutinqa. Iman suti chay 7:48 min. takita? | Nosotros vivimos en esas formas, pero si el estado existiese, las condiciones serían peores. ¿Cuál es el nombre de la canción del minuto 7:48? | We live in these conditions, but if there was state, our conditions became worse. What's the song's name at 7:48 min?
Aperture by Gustavo Santaolalla
Thx!
Great, great video! Had somebody said to me this was from NatGeo and I would've completely bought it! Thumbs up for u guys!
¡Gracias ! un video muy bueno e interesante, se me estrujó el corazón de ver como viven y trabajan mis compatriotas , pero a la vez también me preocupa como esa pobre montaña helada está cambiando gracias a la acción de las personas que por encontrar un medio de trabajo están destruyendo la hermosa Naturaleza,como dijo el minero antes todo era hielo ahora ya no hay más, yo creo que el gobierno debería y DEBE ver como solucionar y CAMBIAR ,esta explotación minera por otra actividad económica que no destruya nuestro medio ambiente. Me dejó pensando y mucho.
Cryss Paredes habiendo tantas formas de trabajar y salir adelante y esta gente escoge vivir en esas condiciones y lo peor de todo DESTRUIR todo a su alrededor como si solo ellos fueran a ser los afectados. la minería ya sea formal o informal es la peor de las actividades del hombre destruye todo a su paso.
I am Peruvian and I am surprised by so many homeless in Chicago, taking refuge in subway stations, taking drugs (cannabis) and urinating in elevators. But I don't see newspaper reports on this. Even so, people continue to come looking for opportunities (The story is the same). Greetings.
We don't consider cannabis a drug. The newspapers talk about the "homeless problem" all the time. Greetings
Very good video. The pinacle of human reach
Nice music from Gustavo Santoalalla and Babel.
Nice video! I am thinking to explore La Rinconada during my Peru trip. Any suggestions on where to stay in La Rinconada?
What we did was take a small combi (van) from the terminal in Juliaca. There are plenty of dirty hotels, but thats about all you're going to find.
Its not a place for foreign people, always be cautious, and accompanied, worst if you dont know the language
This would be a good setting for a far cry game
Bucket List!
I will go there someday :)
Brill idea bro, don't forget to take all your brothers and sisters living in northern Europe with you. Good luck!
@@rudehr What an idiotic reply from you "bro"
@@rudehr Better, take Spaniards with him
You must bring your own water to drink, because the water consumed in that place is contaminated with mercury.
GRACIAS POR EL VIDEO
Imagine how much a gallon of that glacier water would cost in the states!
Great video!
Only place in South American that I've been too is Chile, it was really weird when I was landing to see piles of junked cars by the airport, and trash piles in the city when I was taking a taxi.
When I flew over Peru it seemed like you could see a city very well, no wonder with that type of elevation
nah it was night time when I flew over, but the moon was full so I could see trees/water and the city lights looked really close despite being at 30000 feet elevation
this reminds me on "Hell on Wheels"
Hell on Wheels is much better
Que lugar incrivel nunca tinha ouvido sobre este lugar
the ending music is from tlou!
I heard. It too
Ikc
very good video
Bienvenido a Perú...
How can you breath there? Is it hard?
It was hard. We had to move super slow and I couldn't sleep at night.
Breaking Borders haha yes I was in Cuzco and Titticaca and I didn't sleep a wink till I got to Lima. I thought it was the coca tea lol
amezing nature ,
And that day was sunny..
The first thing that came to my mind watching this was, Do these poor people get compensated for any Health issues they get working at this site, the no of occupational lung disease case must be pretty high, not to forget the poisoning from all that mercury and the high altitude sickness do they get compensated for it?
dory po good question! As far I know there is no compensation. What they are doing is pretty much illegal. The federal government has little to no control of this area. An example of that is the trash that is piling up everywhere.
Breaking Borders. Thats sad. Risking all for something that's not guaranteed. Hopefully they all strike Gold someday. Interesting documentary. Keep it coming!
There are lots of isolated communities in the world but they don't have as much trash as this place, after all those years living there, a normal person would start a system to make life more organized.
I wonder why they do it?
They need a trash burning turbine for electricity...... It would be perfect!
Puta este huevon....
@@cesarcardenasdurand8825 Por que? I think he's serious.
César Cárdenas
Communista = respuesta inválida
@@sibylsaint The germans do it fortune.com/2015/10/20/germany-import-trash/
works for them. They're even taking other countries trash to burn for electricity.
@@cesarcardenasdurand8825 Culo ignorante
Heartbreaking.
Phil D brought me here
Use borax instead of mercury, for gold extraction.
exelentes tomas
Just keep trying the same thing over and over and expect the results to change.
Emeğinize sağlık 👏💐
Un mundo inmenso!
No greenery at all why??
I watched Parker in La Rinconada - very interesting visuals of life inside the mines, how/where the gold is found and extracted. The land of "tough men" where women are not permitted to enter the mines because they would cause "bad-luck" and make the gold veins disappear. Sadly, the "blood gold" is purchased by big tech companies/countries and goes "unnoticed" into the every-day products we use. Gallons of mercury is used to trap 'flower gold', which makes the largest portion of gold mined, in the world. Groups of boys are sent into "mining gallleries" where adults cannot fit and are often crushed by rockfalls, most boys are not even identified, or missed. Girls become part of the drunken, drug-fueled existence of these "tough men", as prostitutes. This place does not support life but it IS morbidly fascinating!
Buen Vídeo :)...
The last of us soundtrack 😔😔👌👌
Those eyes say so much 1:38
y yo que solía jugar por ahi
Usted es de la rinconada?
bro i want to cry i dont know why
Damm bro the people living there are happier than you and your cameraman.
I wonder if the interviewer is aware that he is interviewing people in a language that is not theirs “Spanish”, as a native Spanish speaker I see that both the interviewer and the person being interviewed struggle speaking Spanish….their native language is Quechua….there is not a single person in this town in which his/her native language is Spanish, these indigenous people speak Quechua and have been ignored always by the Peruvian government that treats them as second class citizens, 15% of the Peruvian population speak the original languages of Quechua and Aymara….
We are aware, unfortunately we don’t speak Quechua yet.
what make a place ILLEGAL ? This is crazy ... what makes ur live legal or illegal ?