Have you imagined going on an adventure isolated from the entire world for days and months and even years on a stretch?
This is a true-life story of 50-year-old Spanish extreme athlete, Beatriz Flamini.
Flamini is said to have broken the world record for the longest time spent in a cave after she spent 500 days living 70 meters, about 230 feet deep in a cave outside Granada.
Her team told Reuters that she was out of the cave for eight days due to technical reasons, but remained isolated in a tent. She was 48 years old when she went into the cave and celebrated two birthdays alone underground.
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When She began her challenge on Saturday, November 20, 2021, Covid-19 restrictions were still on, the Ukraine war had not begun and Queen Elizabeth II was still alive.
Media coverage of her emergence into the light of spring in Southern Spain on Friday was limited so as not to overwhelm her. Television footage showed her wearing dark glasses and climbing out toward her support team.
In an emotionally laden voice, Beatriz expressed gratitude to her team saying “I love you so much, I’m really grateful, and please disregard anything I have said down there.”
Beatriz spent her time underground doing exercises to keep fit, she also engaged in painting, drawing, and knitting wooly hats. She recorded herself underground with two GoPro cameras to document her time.
The 50-year-old woman also completed reading 60 books and survived with 1,000 liters of water, Beatriz was monitored by a group of psychologists, researchers, specialists in the study of caves – and physical trainers who watched her every move and monitored her physical and mental well-being, though never made contact.
Her experience is now an academic document on the impact of social isolation and extreme temporary disorientation on people. Scientists at the Universities of Granada and Almeria and a Madrid-based sleep clinic have been studying its behavior for research purposes.
The Guinness Book of Records website awards the “longest time survived trapped underground” to the 33 Chilean and Bolivian miners who spent 69 days 688 meters about 2,257 feet underground after the collapse of the San José copper-gold mine in 2010.
(Editor: Terverr Tyav)
