MOTRIL (GRANADA), 14 Apr. (EUROPE PRESS) –
The elite athlete, mountaineer, climber and speleologist Beatriz Flamini has left the cave of Motril (Granada) this Friday morning, where she has stayed for 500 days, thereby breaking the world record for staying in a cave, a challenge that It has been carried out without contact with the outside or time references of any kind.
An excited Flamini has left the cavity after 9:00 am this Friday practically under her own power and to applause. Although she has come out wearing sunglasses, she has taken them off before melting into an eternal embrace with the members of her team, whom she has thanked for all the support they have provided during the almost year and a half that she has been isolated in this cavity of the Tropical Coast of Granada 70 meters underground.
“You are very handsome” she told the people who have been behind this project and who have worn masks to receive her for the athlete’s safety, between laughs, given that she has been absolutely isolated for 500 days. She is scheduled to undergo a medical check-up and be supervised by her sports psychologist before being able to clean up and rest a bit so that she can then attend the media.
However, as soon as she left, she recognized that it had been an “unbeatable experience” with her friends, onlookers, project managers and journalists who were waiting for her outside the cave.
The entire process is being recorded and will be used for a documentary series in which their daily life underground has been recorded; meals, exercises, his good and bad days, his problems and difficulties, his doubts, the changes in his body and mind, the length of his days and nights, his feeling of having entered an eternal loop of time stopped at four in the morning, moments of terror and euphoria.
Also, lack of memory and concentration, hallucinations, mood swings and unforeseen incidents, all of which have been analyzed from the scientific field by various researchers from the University of Granada and the University of Almería.
This elite athlete not only sets the record for underground isolation in Spain, which has remained for five decades in 103 days, but also surpasses the Italian Christine Lanzoni, who in 2007 spent 269 days inside an underground laboratory, as explained by the Andalusian Federation of Speleology and Canyoning.
The rest of the people who have carried out isolation experiences in caves carried them out, for the most part, in underground laboratories, and maintained some type of direct communication with the outside world; In the case of the world record, he also had a watch. Flamini’s challenge goes further, and demonstrates the physical and mental strength of this woman.
