New record for living alone in a cave set by Spanish woman

[David Rose]

Details here:

Beatriz Flamini: Athlete emerges after 500 days living in cave

Beatriz Flamini spent two birthdays in the cave, and kept busy drawing and knitting woolly hats.

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[martinr]

300 + 200 days. She left part way through and spent 6 days camping outside the entrance

"After 300 days of voluntary confinement, Beatriz briefly walked out because she felt, according to sources familiar with the project, “the noise of the router in her brain,” alluding to the computer and router she had with her inside the cave to communicate her basic needs. She spent six days camped next to the cave entrance and, according to the same sources, only had contact with one person, who came in to check the device."

https://english.elpais.com/spain/20...merges-i-got-along-very-well-with-myself.html

 

[Pitlamp]

Here's AOL's take on the story:

Spanish mountaineer emerges from 500 days spent underground in a cave

Beatriz Flamini emerged from the cave 230ft below the ground outside Granada in southern Spain and said the experience had been “excellent”, adding that time had flown by. Ms Flamini’s support team said she has broken a world record for the longest time spent in a cave in an experiment closely...

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[Ian P]

BBC

Beatriz Flamini: Athlete emerges after 500 days living in cave https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-65276888

 

[cap n chris]

I vaguely recall a fair number of cave isolation records, and am pretty sure this 500 day stint isn't the longest. As it's quite late I CBAd to research it to prove/deny the point. Pretty sure a Russian (or Eastern European) did something in the order of 738 days though. Perhaps I dreamt it.

 

[mikem]

https://uk.news.yahoo.com/amphtml/woman-breaks-world-record-longest-050000814.html

No (above is 24 hour journey on London underground). As Flamini did 300 & 200 days, then "Maurizio Montalbini, a sociologist and caving enthusiast. In 1993, Montalbini spent 366 days in an underground cavern near Pesaro in Italy"

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Serb did 464:

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[mikem]

Although Wikipedia gives 260 days for montalbini.

"Geoff workman gained the world [British] record for longest time spent underground in this very cave – a whopping 105 days!!!"

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The unbelievable story of a Japanese soldier who hid in a jungle cave for 27 years until he was found in 1972

Shoichi Yokoi spent 27 years in a self-dug cave in the jungle of Guam, where he hid to avoid capture by US forces in World War II.

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People Lived in This Cave for 78,000 Years

Excavations in Panga ya Saidi suggest technological and cultural change came slowly over time and show early humans weren't reliant on coastal resources

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[Pitlamp]

Wasn't there a French bloke called Michel Siffre who was noted for a long stay in a cave?

 

[mikem]

179 days, so not in the ball park now

 

[andybrooks]

David Lafferty spent 130 days in Gough's Cave in 1966.