The woman who has been in a cave for 500 days comes to light

Seven minutes after nine in the morning this Friday, wearing sunglasses and smiling, Beatriz Flamini has left the cave in Motril (Granada), 70 meters underground, where she has been living, although not without interruption. as he intended, since he entered it on November 21, 2021. Flamini, a 49-year-old from Madrid, entered it then, as he enigmatically announced on Instagram a couple of days before, and it has come out this April 14, which adds up to 509 days, that is, one year, four months and 22 days.

During that time, yes, sources from his team have admitted that he interrupted his experience due to a noise problem and, after spending six days on the surface, he completed the adventure again, which will be reflected in a documentary, since a production company has been behind the operation from the beginning.

After 300 days of voluntary confinement, Beatriz briefly left her seclusion because she felt, sources close to her explained, "the noise of the

in her brain", which she had with her in the cave to communicate her basic needs.

She spent six days camping next to the entrance to the cave and, according to the same sources, she only had contact with one person, who went in to check the device.

Flamini then decided to continue with her experience, of which nothing was known, except for that clue on the social network, in which 4,226 people follow her, until this week it was terminated.

When leaving the cave, she said that she was very comfortable inside it.

"I didn't want to go out today," she assured.

"At no time have I thought of quitting.

I have gotten along very well with myself ”, she finished.

The objective of Flamini, who defines herself as a "alpinist, elite athlete and climber", was to remain in a cave alone, in isolation, without time references, without news and without contact with the outside world.

The woman, who has described this personal challenge as "excellent and insurmountable", has been assisted as soon as she left by a psychologist and has undergone a medical check-up before appearing before the press at eleven in the morning.

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The cave is located near the coast of Granada.

The hollow in which Flamini has lived had an approximate height of 12 meters and a similar surface area.

The conditions of her adventure forced her not to know anything about the outside, but she has had a computer and a

that have allowed her to send texts and video messages and, at the same time, they served those who supervised her to know the punctual status of the adventurer and her needs.

In the press conference that he gave just over two hours after leaving the cave, Flamini was in good humor and willing to attend to everyone, although at times it was difficult for him to string together the arguments.

He has also recognized that he had certain memory gaps, especially in the short term.

Flamini has said that everything that could have happened to him inside was already planned, in reference to the previous psychological preparation, which took into account all the variables.

Nothing has taken her by surprise, except "the flies", which at a specific moment and for a while, "became very annoying".

The people who have helped her - a speleology club from Motril, various researchers from the universities of Almería, Granada and Murcia and a company from Madrid - assure that the technology available to her in the cave was locked and prepared exclusively for her

send messages and nothing else.

In addition, they add, Flamini has not had a watch or any other device that would allow him to have any temporal reference.

The only thing that allowed her to have an approximation to the elapsed time has been, they explain, her own menstrual period.

In his appearance, Flamini has said that he stopped counting at 65 days.

"At my 65 days," he clarified.

"There is no trick to know the days that have passed," he said.

Then she has specified that, if she had to give a feeling about the time spent inside, she would say that only "160 or 170 days" had elapsed.

The groceries, as well as batteries, light bulbs or any other device that he had in the cave that needed to be replaced, have come to him through members of the Motrileño caving group.

They had agreed on an intermediate point in which they left her supplies and she, when she considered it necessary, came to take the generated garbage and pick up what they had left for her.

Her needs were communicated through text messages or video messages that she sent periodically.

The objective of this adventure has been to survive in what Beatriz Flamini calls “self-sufficiency” and also to record a documentary.

As explained by Dokumalia, the television producer behind the adventure, Flamini saw the

de La 2 series that they had made.

She herself proposed this challenge to them and the producer took over the operation, which was joined by various scientists: psychologists from Granada, Murcia and Almería, as well as a Madrid chronobiology company, which has studied "the circadian rhythms and the sleep of Beatriz under the exceptional conditions in which it was found”.

The woman from Madrid had a panic button with her in case she was in danger or wanted to end the project.

She has claimed that she never felt the need to press it.

University researchers, all from the field of psychology, have analyzed Beatriz's personality and its evolution, her capacity for suffering, the affectation of social isolation and how temporal disorientation has influenced her own perception of time.

The adventurer has recounted that she has "respected the silence of the cave".

“I haven't talked to myself,” she says.

She did emit some "screams" of despair when she "lost some object rolling down the many holes in the cave."

Although she has not wanted to specify what her next challenge will be, Flamini has acknowledged that she already has it almost completely planned.