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500 Days of Living in a Cave, a Spanish Female Adventurer Sets a World Record. PHOTOS/GI
MADRID – One person Mountain climber and female adventurers of origin Spanish Beatriz Flamini (50) left gua 70 meters deep, where he spent 500 days isolated from the outside world. He entered the cave on November 21, 2021.
Spanish media said the adventurer had set a new world record, but these claims could not be immediately confirmed.
In brief comments to journalists, Flamini described the experience of being cut off from the world as “amazing, invincible”. He then asked permission because he needed to take a bath, not having bathed in over 16 months.
Chase Flamini is part of a project called Timecave which was designed to study how someone would go underground alone for so long.
Flamini used two cameras to document his experience and placed the footage at an exchange point in the cave, reported Spain’s state news agency Efe.
His teammates drop off food and other necessities at pick-up locations and pick up whatever he leaves there. A group of psychologists, researchers, speleologists and physical trainers with Timecave studied the footage but had no direct contact with it.
At a press conference on Friday, Flamini said he felt he was still alive the day he walked into the cave in 2021 and had no idea what had happened in the world since then, including Russia’s war in Ukraine.
Without keeping track of the time, he said he stopped trying to count the days after calculating he was there for about 60 days. Flamini said he never felt like giving up, even during the fly invasion which he cites as the source of his worst memories.
