Man showed what really goes on in 'most remote city in the world' where 'snipers shoot you'

A man who visited the 'most remote city in the world' shared what it was like to stay there and tried to explain the experience to his audience.

High up in Peru around 5,000 metres above sea level is La Rinconada, which is both an incredibly dangerous place to live and the highest permanent human settlement in the world.

The bloke behind the YouTube channel Yes Theory decided he'd see this place for himself and understand what living there was like, since to some it's a 'lawless' settlement.

While he's a well travelled man he found La Rinconada to be 'the sketchiest place' he'd ever seen as he witnessed fights breaking out on the streets regularly with nobody doing anything to stop it, though fortunately he also met some friendly people.

While in La Rinconada he was told to stay indoors at night with security telling him there was a risk things would 'completely change' in the city when the sun went down.

During the night he could hear gunshots and screams outside his hotel, and in the morning when he looked out of his window he saw three fights in half an hour.

Locals who lived in La Rinconada told him how people would come to the city to work in the nearby gold mine for 30 days without pay and then there'd be a day when they could keep any gold they found as recompense.

They also said they'd recently seen someone shot dead in the city, while the YouTuber's attempt to explore further was cut short when someone tried robbing him.

He said the surrounding area was 'one of the most beautiful places that you can be on our planet', but the city also contained 'worst of what human beings can do'.

All in all it doesn't sound like the best place to visit if one were looking for a place to travel to.

Visitors could hear gunshots in the city at night (Sebastian Castañeda/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images)

He's not the only person to venture to La Rinconada to find out more, as Italian traveller Zazza also visited the place.

He stumbled upon the private security firms and criminal gangs that existed in La Rinconada and brought guns with them, as well as signs telling people 'shoot to kill order, do not stop'.

Zazza was told snipers took up positions on a glacier and would shoot anyone who stayed around too long, and his security said efforts to catch the snipers kept failing.

Describing the place like an 'entire, immense slum' where 50,000 people lived, Zazza explained criminals evaded the law by dressing up as miners so identifying them became a challenge.