Five hundred days spent alone in a cave about 70 meters underground: it is the record just broken by Beatriz Flamini, a mountaineer who returned to see the light of the sun this morning in Motril, in the province of Granada (Spain), after having overcome 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 exited 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 Spanish public TV Tve.
In these 500 days, 50-year-old Flamini has had no direct contact with the outside world: the preparation of the cave in which she lived and her basic needs such as food were the responsibility of the team that accompanied her, explains the Efe news agency.
Meanwhile, the climber recorded videos to document what he was experiencing.
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 the psychological and other effects and consequences of such a long period of isolation.
"It is an experience of extraordinary value, which has involved great courage", commented the Spanish Minister of Tourism and Industry Héctor Gómez in connection with TVE.
Record of a mountaineer in Spain, she spends 500 days isolated in a cave