After spending almost a year-and-a-half in near-total isolation(隔离) some 230 feet underground, Beatriz Flamini came out of a cave in southern Spain.
The climber and mountaineer had entered the cave in Granada on Nov. 21, 2021, determined to spend 500 days alone. Flamini was 48 years old when she went down, and 50 when she officially completed the challenge on Friday. She described the experience as “excellent, unbeatable”, telling reporters that she never even considered hitting the panic button.
Flamini’s months in the cave were spent in silence — but not without remote supervision. A team of scientists from the universities of Almería, Granada and Murcia kept in touch with her using “special, limited” messaging technology. They delivered food — including special treats like pears and fresh eggs. She spent her days reading, drawing, exercising, knitting hats and recording herself with two GoPro cameras. Before going underground, she told her team not to contact her under any circumstances. But a technical problem forced Flamini to briefly pause the challenge around Day 300. She spent eight days in a tent, without making contact with anyone, before returning to the cave. Flamini says she spoke only when recording videos.
Flamini’s experience is part of a project called “Timecave”, which the AP says aims to study “how someone would fare going solo underground for so long”. A spokesperson for the project told the Spanish news agency EFE that the isolation experiment was Flamini’s own idea. Psychologists, researchers, physical trainers and cave experts with Timecave studied Flamini’s recordings to monitor her well-being. And EFE reports that scientists at Spanish universities and a Madrid-based sleep clinic are studying her experience to determine the impact of social isolation and “extreme temporary disorientation (迷惑)” on things like perception of time. Flamini said she will continue to let doctors study the physical and mental impact of her time in the cave — before planning her next mountaineering and caving projects.
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