Yesterday, Friday, a Spanish mountain climber left a cave 70 meters underground where she had spent 500 days incommunicado.
Beatriz Flamini, 50, from Madrid, left the cave in southern Spain shortly after 9 am after her followers informed her that she had completed the achievement she had planned for on November 21, 2021.
Spanish media said it had set a new world record, but this could not be immediately confirmed.
In brief comments to reporters, Flamini described the experience of being isolated from the world as “excellent and unrivaled.” Then she asked to take a shower because she hadn’t done it in over 16 months.
Flamini’s experiment was part of the Time How project, which was designed to study how a person could survive alone underground for so long.
And the Spanish news agency “Efi” reported that Flamini used two cameras to document her experience.
Her colleagues would leave her food and other necessities at an agreed-upon location, take the footage she recorded, and leave it there for them.
The project’s group of psychologists, researchers, speleologists, and physical trainers studied the recordings, without any direct contact with them.
At a press conference on Friday, Flamini said she felt she was still living in the day the experiment began in 2021, and had no idea what had happened in the world since then, including the Russia-Ukraine war.
She added that she stopped trying to count the days after she felt that about 60 days had passed for her in the cave.
