At seven minutes past nine this Friday, Beatriz Flamini left, smiling and wearing sunglasses, the cave 70 meters underground in Motril (Granada) where she lives, although not without interruption, as he had intended since he it entered on November 21, 2021. Flamini, a 49-year-old from Madrid, then entered it, as he enigmatically announced a few days earlier on Instagram, and it came out this April 14, which totals 509 days one year, four months and 22 days. Yes, sources from his team have admitted during this time that he interrupted his experience due to a noise issue and completed the adventure again after almost eight days on the surface, which is reflected in documentation since a production the company was behind from the start the operation.
After 300 days of voluntary confinement, Beatrice briefly left her seclusion because, sources close to her explained, she felt “the rushing of the router in her brain” that she carried with her to the cave to communicate her basic needs. She camped near the cave entrance for six days and only had contact with one person checking the device, according to the same sources. Flamini then decided to continue her experience, of which nothing was known, except for this notice on the social network, where she is followed by 4,226 people until this week ended. As she exited the cave, she said that she was very comfortable in it. “I didn’t want to go out today,” he assured. “I never thought about quitting. I’ve taken care of myself very well,” she concluded.
Flamini, who describes herself as an “alpinist, elite athlete and climber”, wanted to stay in a cave alone, isolated, with no time reference, no news and no contact with the outside world. The woman, who described this personal challenge as “excellent and insurmountable”, was looked after by a psychologist and medically examined immediately after her departure, before appearing before the press at eleven in the morning.
The cave is located near the Granada coast. The hollow where Flamini lived was approximately 12 meters high and had a similar surface. The terms of her adventure forced her to be ignorant of the outside world, but she had a computer and router that enabled her to send texts and video messages, while also serving those supervising her to know the punctuality status of the Adventurer and her needs.
In the press conference he held just over two hours after leaving the cave, Flamini was in a good mood and ready to take care of everyone, although at times he found it difficult to string the arguments together. He also recognized that he had certain memory lapses, especially in the short term. Flamini said that everything that could have happened to him inside was already planned, in relation to the previous psychological preparation that took into account all the variables. Nothing surprised her except “the flies” who “got really annoying” at a certain moment and for a while.
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The people who helped her – a caving club from Motril, various researchers from the Universities of Almería, Granada and Murcia, and a company from Madrid – assure that the technology at her disposal in the cave was sealed and prepared exclusively for her to to send messages and nothing else. Furthermore, they add, Flamini did not have a watch or any other device that would allow him to refer to time. The only thing that allowed her to approximate the elapsed time, they explain, was her own menstruation.
In his performance, Flamini said he stopped counting after 65 days. “By my 65 days,” he clarified. “There is no trick to knowing the past days,” he said. She then specified that if she had to give a sense of the time spent inside, she would say that only “160 or 170 days” had passed.
The groceries, as well as batteries, light bulbs, or other equipment he had in the cave that needed replacing, came to him through members of the Motrileño cave group. They had agreed on an intermediate point where they would leave their supplies and, if they deemed it necessary, they would pick up the garbage that would arise and collect what they had left for them. The needs were communicated through text messages or video messages, which he sent regularly.
The aim of this adventure was 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 series Rescate de La 2 that they had filmed. 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 and a Madrid-based chronobiology company that studied “the circadian rhythms and sleep of Beatriz” under the extraordinary 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. He has affirmed that he never felt the need to press it.
University researchers, all from the field of psychology, have analyzed Beatrice’s personality and her development, her ability to suffer, the influence of social isolation and the influence of temporal disorientation on her own perception of time. The adventuress has said that she “respected the stillness of the cave”. “I didn’t speak alone,” she says. Yes, he did let out some “screams” of despair when “he lost an object rolling through the many holes in the cave.” While he didn’t want to specify what his next challenge will be, Flamini has admitted he’s almost fully planned it already.