The elite Spanish athlete, mountaineer and climber, Beatriz Flamini left this Friday the cave in which she remained alone for 500 days at a depth of 70 meterswithout being able to ascertain the passage of time, a challenge that he defined as “excellent and insurmountable”.
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Sometimes stunned and always smiling, Flamini appeared, without sunglasses, before the press shortly after to recount this challenge, now a world record, which has given him “difficult and very beautiful” moments duringe more than sixteen months, in which he never found a way to find out the passing of the days.
The athlete acknowledged that during the time she was underground she experienced complicated moments such as an invasion of flies or auditory hallucinations, but that the “trick” to face extreme situations is to focus “on the here and now.”
Without knowing yet what happened in the world during this time -“I am anchored in November 21, 2021”, the date on which she entered- she said, this elite athlete assured that she never thought of leaving, “in fact, she did not want to leave.”
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Flamini acknowledged that she knew before entering the risks, especially psychological ones, that she faced, but nothing that the psychologists wrote down has happened to her, except “auditory hallucinations because you are silent and the brain invents them.”
He did need to have the journalists’ questions repeated to him on occasion the short-term memory loss that these situations createwhich will serve as mental strength training for other projects you have in mind.
The athlete, who entered a cave in the Granada town of Motril (south) at the age of 48, came out with her 50th birthday. Throughout this time she had the support of the speleologist Francisco Hoyos, coordinator of the assistance who has cared for her at the shade. Early today, two speleologists and a psychologist went down to the cave to provide coverage for the athlete as she left the cave, which lasted about 40 minutes.
At the exit, he thanked the professionalism of the group of psychologists, speleologists and physical trainers involved in the project because “without them it would not have been possible,” he said.
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During all this time, she was leaving video cards that she recorded in an area of the cave programmed with speleologists, where food delivery and garbage removal, without any communication.
This experience is part of the ‘Timecave’ project, which began two years ago, when this passionate solo expedition to the highest peaks in the world and an expert in self-sufficiency contacted the producer Dokumalia to challenge her to remain alone and without contact. outside in a cave for 500 days.
The producer recorded her daily life 70 meters underground, which research groups from the universities of Granada and Almería have closely followed to study how social isolation and extreme temporal disorientation affect the perception of time. In addition to the neuropsychological changes that this tremendous challenge has entailed in the face of loneliness, the absence of natural light and cognitive and social isolation.
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EFE and AFP
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