(ANSA) - MADRID, 14 APR - Five hundred days spent alone in a cave about 70 meters underground: this is the record just broken by Beatriz Flamini, a mountaineer who returned to see the sunlight this morning in Motril, in the province of Granada (Spain), after have passed the challenge.
"It was an excellent, unsurpassed experience," she commented to journalists present on the spot.
Smiling and wearing sunglasses to protect her eyes from the impact of natural light, Flamini came out of the cave around 9 this morning, helped by members of a team of cavers and other professionals who monitored her long period underground, as shown by public TV Spanish TV.
Meanwhile, the mountaineer recorded videos to document what she was experiencing, images that will also contribute to the making of a documentary.
His experience, which is part of a project called Timecave, is being studied by research groups from the Universities of Granada and Almería: the goal is to study effects and psychological and other consequences of such a long period of isolation.
Beatriz Flamini, 50, said shortly after the release that she was unaware of events happening in the world in the meantime, such as the war in Ukraine.
"I stayed on November 21, 2021 (the day you entered the cave), I don't know what happened in the world", she explained in a press conference reported by the Iberian media shortly after leaving the cave.
"I stopped counting what day I was on in Day 65, according to my calculations," she added.
Flamini said that underground "there were difficult moments and very beautiful moments" and that she spent a good part of the time "reading, writing, drawing, weaving, existing and having fun".
The hardest part she had to go through, she added,
it was having to deal with flies that had invaded the cave.
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