Cave Woman Espanol
50-year-old Spanish extreme athlete Beatriz Flamini was awakened and dragged out of her hiding place into the Spring sunlight. The move was somewhat of a shock as she had been setting a record for the longest time living alone in a cave for a woman. Wearing dark glasses and smiling as she adjusted to the light of Spring in southern Spain, Beatriz told reporters that time had flown by. “When they came in to get me, I was asleep. I thought something had happened. I said: ‘Already? Surely not.’ I hadn’t finished my book,” she said. Flamini’s support team said she broke a world record for the longest time spent in a cave in an experiment monitored by scientists studying the human mind and circadian rhythms. She was 48 when she went into the cave, celebrating two birthdays alone underground. Flamini began her challenge on Saturday, Nov. 20, 2021 – before the outbreak of the Ukraine war, the end of Spain’s COVID mask requirement and the death of Britain’s Queen Elizabeth II. She did come out for eight days, her team disclosed, but stayed isolated in a tent waiting for repairs to a router used to send audios and videos to tell her team how she was doing.
Asked if she ever thought about pressing her panic button or leaving the cave, she replied: “Never. In fact I didn’t want to come out.” Flamini spent her time underground doing exercises, painting and drawing and knitting woolly hats. She took two GoPro cameras to document her time, and got through 60 books and 1,000 liters of water, according to her support team. She said she began her challenge trying to keep track of time. “On day 65 I stopped counting and lost perception of time,” she said. There were hard moments – such as when the cave was invaded by flies – and some “beautiful ones,” she said. “If this is your dream, and you’re realizing it, why are you going to cry?” Beatriz had focused on retaining “coherence”, eating well and relishing the silence. She looked forward to treats such as avocados, fresh eggs and clean t-shirts that her support team sent down before, “like gods,” also removing her waste.
“I didn’t talk to myself out loud, but I had internal conversations and got on very well with myself,” she joked. “You have to remain conscious of your feelings. If you’re afraid, that’s something natural but never let panic in or you get paralyzed.” Beatriz said she would be monitored by the doctors to study the impact on her body and mind before planning new mountaineering and caving projects.
What’s fun in a cave?
Two cavemen are lamenting their situation in a cave. One tells the other the following:
“Something’s just not right. Our air is clean, our water is pure, we all get plenty of exercise, everything we eat is organic and free-range, and yet nobody lives past thirty.”
Murphy found himself in the London underground subway station, at four o’clock in the morning. He walked along to the escalator, on the escalator it is written, “Dogs must be carried on the escalator.” he thought, “Where am I going to find a dog at this hour of the night?”
How did the cavemen survive the asteroid that killed all the dinosaurs?
Social distancing, they stayed 56 million years apart.
Two Neanderthals are in a cave.
One says to the other, “it’s dark in here, isn’t it?”
The other one says, “I don’t know, I can’t see.”
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