Elite mountaineer emerges from cave after nearly one and a half years alone underground

New York Post ^ | April 16, 2023 | Jorge Fitz-Gibbon

[nickcarraway]

An elite Spanish mountaineer just emerged from a cave after nearly a year and a half alone underground, telling supporters she didn’t want to come out because “I hadn’t finished my book.”

Beatriz Flamini, 50, who spent 500 days — and two birthdays — in isolation about 230 feet below the ground outside of Granada, returned to the surface Friday, unaware of the Ukraine war, the end of COVID-19 restrictions and the death of Queen Elizabeth II.

“When they came to get me, I was asleep,” said Flamini, whose underground stay was planned to end on her 500th day. “I thought something had happened. I said, ‘Already? Surely not.’ I hadn’t finished my book.” Asked if she ever panicked while underground, she answered, “Never. In fact, I didn’t want to come out!”

[Albion Wilde]

I’m surprised at how much color she still has in her skin. I had a cousin who worked nights for some years, and he became ghastly pale.

[Mozzafiato]

Book not done. Sounds like serious writer’s block, mental issues, or both.

She was not writing a book, she was reading books.

[Flavious_Maximus]

Look like what Justine Bateman has become. A progressive mole creature.

[BradyLS]

Standup Comic in me says she was a slow reader,

The one in me saye she'd never make it as a ghost writer.