Spanish climber Beatriz Flamini spent 500 days in a 70-metre-deep cave, without natural light, contact with the outside world or reference to the passage of time, in an unprecedented experiment followed by scientists ending on Friday.
The 500 days that Beatriz Flamini, considered an “elite athlete”, spent in a cave in southern Spain is also a new world record, as they surpassed all previous known cases, in which, however, the isolation has never been so extreme and at least one hour inside the cave, that is, there was a reference to the passage of time.
As such, Beatriz Flamini’s experience is considered unprecedented due to the extreme isolation conditions, according to the Andalusian Speleology Federation, which supported the climber before and during her time in the cave.
The federation prepared the interior of the pit before Beatriz Flamini entered on November 20, 2022 with security cameras in place.
A “sharing” area was also set up, where the support group left food, water and other items and where Beatriz Flamini left her garbage, video camera memory sticks and written notes, usually with requests.
Throughout this period, Beatrice Flamini never saw other people and did not talk to anyone.
Hours after leaving the cave, she also didn’t speak out loud by herself, she said at a press conference on Friday, making sure her voice was only heard when she was recording for the camera.
At a press conference, the athlete apologized for suffocation, citing the fact that she had not spoken to anyone for almost a year and a half.
The idea for this experience, which Beatriz Flamini insisted on Friday, was an “activity” of an “extreme, elite athlete” came from the mountaineer herself, who suggested it to the documentary’s producer.
Beatriz Flamini has dedicated herself to solo expeditions to the highest mountains in the world and is considered an expert in extreme autonomy.
This experience has been and is also being supervised, from preparation, by groups of researchers from two Spanish universities, in Granada and Almería, from fields related to health (physical and mental) and various social sciences.
The scientists observed the behavior and body changes of Beatrice Flamini inside the cave, on images collected by cameras, and analyzed the notes she wrote and the notes she made and left on the sharing platform.
The climber will now continue to be monitored by researchers and underwent a medical examination on Friday as soon as she left the cave, and the first diagnosis indicated that she was in good general health.
According to what she herself said on Friday, of everything scientists and doctors told her before what could happen to her inside the cave, after a long isolation, she had only auditory hallucinations.
Without any idea of the past tense, Beatrice Flamini saw two cavers and a psychologist enter the space where she had lived for 500 days “when she slept” on a Friday morning.
“I thought they came to tell me that I should leave because something happened,” she told reporters, admitting that she knows nothing about what happened in these 500 days in the world, since she is “attached to November 20, 2022″ and the feeling that you entered the cave “not so long ago”.
“When I saw the light [ao sair da cova] I didn’t feel anything because for me it was a while ago when I walked in,” he added without elaborating as a documentary and book about the experience is in preparation.
In addition to recording on camera, filming and writing texts, Beatriz Flamini read 60 books and drew during this period.
Support groups provided over 1,000 liters of water and 1.5 tons of food and other supplies.
Beatriz Flamini never pressed the alarm button set inside the cave, where she entered at the age of 48 and left at the age of 50.
The secret to staying so balanced was to focus “here and now,” she said herself, who explained that she ate when she felt hungry or looked thin, slept when she wanted to sleep, and got up when she woke up. up to read, draw or play sports, always responding to whatever he wants to do.
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Source: CM Jornal
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