In what might be a world record, a Spanish extreme athlete, Beatriz Flamini, has emerged from a cave after 500 days without any touch with others.
According to the BBC, Russia had not yet invaded Ukraine, and the Covid epidemic was still raging when Flamini went into the cave near Granada.
It was gathered that the expenditure was a component in an experiment that scientists carefully watched.
“I’m still stuck on November 21, 2021. I don’t know anything about the world,” she said after exiting the cave.
Ms. Flamini, 50, was 48 when she entered the cave. She spent her time exercising, creating art, and knitting wool caps in the 230-foot-deep cave, which is 70 meters deep. According to her support group, she consumed 1,000 liters of water and 60 books.
A team of psychologists, scientists, and speleologists (specialists in the study of caves) kept an eye on her, but none of the professionals made contact with her.
Spanish television station TVE broadcast footage of her smiling as she emerged from the cave and embraced her rescuers.
Speaking shortly afterwards, she described her experience as “excellent, unbeatable”.
“I’ve been silent for a year-and-a-half, not talking to anyone but myself,” she said, while reporters pressed her for more details.
“I lose my balance, that’s why I’m being held. If you allow me to take a shower – I haven’t touched water for a year-and-a-half – I’ll see you in a little while. Is that OK with you?”
After roughly two months, Flamini told reporters, she stopped caring about the passage of time.
“You are silent and the brain makes it up,” she said.
Her time alone has been used by experts to examine how social isolation and severe transient confusion affect how people perceive time.
The Guinness World Records has not confirmed whether there is a record for voluntarily spending time in a cave, despite Flamini’s support team’s claims that she had broken the record for the longest period spent there.
It has given the title of “longest time survived trapped underground” to 33 miners from Chile and Bolivia who spent 69 days 688 meters (2,257 feet) down following the 2010 Chilean copper-gold mine collapse.
