WHY THEY STAY | The Most Extreme Places on Earth People Refuse to Leave | 4K Documentary

Why do people still live in the most extreme places on Earth? From homes on active volcanoes and towns built over burning coal fires to floating slums, garbage cities and Arctic towns frozen in ice, this 4K documentary visits 31 of the most dangerous places people live and asks the one question that matters: why don't they leave? For some, it is poverty. For others, it is ancestral land, the graves of their families, or a job in the mine that keeps food on the table. Some have no nationality and nowhere else they are allowed to go. Some simply cannot sell a home that nobody wants to buy. In this film: - Villages cut off by snow for 8 months a year in the Himalayas - Families living on the slopes of Stromboli, Sakurajima and Hawaii's Leilani Estates - Jharia, India, where the ground has been burning for over a century - Dharavi, Makoko, Rocinha and Cairo's Garbage City - Norilsk, Vorkuta and Chukotka in the Russian Arctic - Disappearing river islands in Bangladesh and a sinking atoll in Tuvalu - Cerro de Pasco, Peru, a city on the edge of a giant toxic mine - Homes buried in ice on the shore of Lake Erie, USA ▶ Watch next: URBAN HELLS | Life in the Most Disgusting Places on Earth: https://youtu.be/2ShGongyAls IMPOSSIBLE PLACES: The Most Extreme Homes on Earth: https://youtu.be/ZpR6gCr9WZQ TOXIC HELLS | Life in the Most Poisoned Places on Earth: https://youtu.be/H0rwjzFaGMQ Which place on this list would you never be able to live in? Tell us in the comments. ⏱ Chapters 00:00 Why People Stay in Extreme Places 01:24 Zanskar Valley, India: Frozen 8 Months a Year 03:30 Stromboli, Italy: Living on an Erupting Volcano 05:21 Jharia, India: A Town Over Burning Coal 07:20 Chã das Caldeiras, Cape Verde: Farming Inside a Volcano 09:24 Cangkringan, Indonesia: Digging Volcanic Sand 11:26 Norilsk, Russia: The Most Polluted Arctic City 13:28 Kurigram, Bangladesh: Islands That Vanish 15:22 Tonlé Sap, Cambodia: The Floating Slum 17:27 Fongafale, Tuvalu: Swallowed by the Sea 18:51 Santa Cruz del Islote, Colombia: The Most Crowded Island 20:58 Vorkuta, Russia: Arctic Ghost Town 23:15 Rann of Kutch, India: Life on Salt 25:13 Leilani Estates, Hawaii: Homes on Lava 27:13 La Paz, Bolivia: Homes on the Cliff Edge 29:01 Manshiyat Naser, Egypt: Garbage City 31:30 Agbogbloshie, Ghana: The E-Waste Swamp 33:35 Dharavi, India: The Half-Meter Maze 35:55 Rocinha, Brazil: The Endless Staircase 37:54 Haid Al-Jazil, Yemen: Mud Towers on a Rock 39:54 Sakurajima, Japan: Daily Ash Falls 41:45 Chukotka, Russia: Edge of the Arctic 43:44 Makoko, Nigeria: Living on a Chemical Lagoon 46:39 Koh Panyee, Thailand: A Village on Stilts 48:41 Matmata, Tunisia: Homes Underground 50:36 Chinguetti, Mauritania: Buried by the Sahara 52:26 Tolar Grande, Argentina: Life Without Oxygen 54:17 Batanes, Philippines: Typhoon Homes 56:33 Cerro de Pasco, Peru: The City on a Toxic Mine 59:33 Khunzakh, Russia: The Village on the Canyon Edge 1:01:07 Nubian Crocodile Village, Egypt 1:03:00 Lake Erie, USA: Homes Buried in Ice #ExtremePlaces #ImpossiblePlaces #DangerousPlaces #4KDocumentary #WhyTheyStay