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A Spanish athlete spent 500 days alone in a cave — for science

Beatriz Flamini leaves a cave in Los Gauchos, near the Spanish town of Motril on Friday. (Jorge Guerrero/AFP via Getty Images)

After spending almost a year-and-a-half in near-total isolation some 230 feet underground, Beatriz Flamini emerged from a cave in southern Spain and asked: Who's buying the beer?

The climber and mountaineer had entered the cave in Granada on Nov. 21, 2021, determined to spend 500 days alone — monitored from afar by a group of scientists — to explore the effects of isolation on the human body and mind.

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