A sportsman of Elite of Spain What happened 500 days isolated in a cavewithout direct contact with the outside or natural light, came to the surface this Friday stating that the experience had been “excellent, second to none”.
“I haven’t talked to anyone for a year and a half, only myself”said Beatrice Flamini after leaving, helped by speleologists, from a cave located about 10 kilometers from Motril (Andalusia, south), where she spent 500 days 70 meters underground.
Survival underground: how was the experience of Beatrice Flamini
The woman had books, artificial light and cameras to record your experiencealthough neither telephone nor instruments to control the time, and she was supported by a technical team that left her food in a place in the cave without having contact with her.
“I don’t know what has happened in the world (…) for me it is still November 21, 2021”the first day in the cave, “and seeing all of you with a mask, for me it is still the Covid-19 pandemic,” said Flamini, 50, referring to the journalists, who wore a mask for safety.
filming
The experience, which will be the subject of a documentary by the Spanish production company Dokumaliahad as one of his objectives to see the mental and physical impact of isolation like this.
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for his partthis was “an extreme resistance test”, the Minister of Tourism, Héctor Gómez, estimated on public television, who said he hoped that “this test would be of great scientific value”.
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“The ship sets sail again on a journey that will last 500 days (…) We meet again in April/May 2023,” Flamini had written on Instagram in November 2021, two days before starting his experience.
“There have been difficult moments and it is true that there have been very beautiful moments and both have been the ones who have managed to meet the objective”said in the press conference this athlete who in the past passed periods of isolation on mountaintopsas reported on Instagram.
stating that “never” ever thought of quittingnot even when he suffered an invasion of flies inside the cave, did he say that she devoted the time “to reading, writing, drawing, knitting, being, enjoying”.
“I have not spoken to myself out loud, the conversations that I have had, I have had absolutely internally,” she said.
Source: Ambito
