Beatriz Flamini

Beatriz Flamini is a Spanish extreme athlete and mountaineer known for acts of self-isolation and self-sufficiency. She trained as a sports instructor and worked as an aerobics teacher in Madrid, joined cave exploring expeditions as a photographer in the 1990s, and later became a rescue worker at a mountain refuge in the Sierra de Gredos. Her best known project, Timecave, began on 21 November 2021 when she entered a cave near Motril in Granada at the age of 48, and she emerged on 14 April 2023 after about 500 days underground. The stay was monitored by chronobiologists at several Spanish universities, and she had planned it as preparation for a crossing of Mongolia on foot.