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She spent 500 days alone in a cave for a human experiment … but didn’t finish her book
In 2010, 33 Bolivian miners and children survived 69 days after having been trapped 688 meters below ground, which was the longest time survived trapped underground. On April 15, a 50-year-old Spanish woman emerged from a 70-meter-deep cave after spending 500 days there, alone. She entered the cave voluntarily on November 20, 2021, not to escape from the Covid pandemic, and had had minimal contact outside during that time. She had two birthdays in the cave and turned 50 when she got out there. It was not an accident but an extensive physical, psychological, and mental challenge for the elite athlete and also a rare experiment for scientists to study the human mind and circadian rhythms in such isolation and environment. What did she do during the solitary days in the dark, soundless cave? Interestingly, she seems to have enjoyed the time there reading, exercising, drawing, and knitting instead of counting how many more days she had to stay there. Also, she hadn’t been bothered by any news on the ground for 500 days, including Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. She seems to be quite fit to take a round-trip journey to Mars, which would take over 400 hundred days.
Enjoy reading the article and learning about how she survived and enjoyed 500 days in the cave.
https://edition.cnn.com/2023/04/14/europe/spanish-athlete-500-days-in-cave-intl-hnk/index.html
She spent 500 days alone in a cave for a human experiment … but didn’t finish her book
In 2010, 33 Bolivian miners and children survived 69 days after having been trapped 688 meters below ground, which was the longest time survived trapped underground. On April 15, a 50-year-old Spanish woman emerged from a 70-meter-deep cave after spending 500 days there, alone. She entered the cave voluntarily on November 20, 2021, not to escape from the Covid pandemic, and had had minimal contact outside during that time. She had two birthdays in the cave and turned 50 when she got out there. It was not an accident but an extensive physical, psychological, and mental challenge for the elite athlete and also a rare experiment for scientists to study the human mind and circadian rhythms in such isolation and environment. What did she do during the solitary days in the dark, soundless cave? Interestingly, she seems to have enjoyed the time there reading, exercising, drawing, and knitting instead of counting how many more days she had to stay there. Also, she hadn’t been bothered by any news on the ground for 500 days, including Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. She seems to be quite fit to take a round-trip journey to Mars, which would take over 400 hundred days.
Enjoy reading the article and learning about how she survived and enjoyed 500 days in the cave.
https://edition.cnn.com/2023/04/14/europe/spanish-athlete-500-days-in-cave-intl-hnk/index.html
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