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Beatriz Flamini
Beatriz Flamini is a Spanish extreme athlete and mountaineer known for her acts of Social isolation, self-isolation and self-sufficiency. She is best known for her "Timecave" expedition, whereby she spent 500 days Cave sitting, living in a cave in Granada, from November 2021 to April 2023. Biography Early career Flamini studied to be a sports instructor, and was employed as an aerobics teacher in Madrid. In the 1990s, she joined cave exploring expeditions as a photographer. She later moved to a mountain refuge in the Sierra de Gredos to be a rescue worker. In 2019, she was making preparations to cross Mongolia by foot. She moved to Espigüete and began training at Montaña Palentina. She later decided that she was physically capable of the task, but was not mentally prepared for the prolonged isolation. Timecave To prepare for the social isolation in the Mongolian desert, Flamini intended to beat the record of 463 days spent in an underground cave set by Milutin Veljković. Flamini ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Extreme Athlete
Action sports, adventure sports or extreme sports are physical activity, activities perceived as involving a high degree of risk of injury or death. These activities often involve speed, height, a high level of physical exertion and highly specialized gear. Extreme tourism overlaps with extreme sport. The two share the same main attraction, "adrenaline, adrenaline rush" caused by an element of risk, and differ mostly in the degree of engagement and professionalism. Definition There is no precise definition of an 'extreme sport' and the origin of the term is unclear but it gained popularity in the 1990s when it was picked up by marketing companies to promote the X Games and when the Extreme Sports Channel and Extreme International launched. More recently, the commonly used definition from research is "a competitive (comparison or self-evaluative) activity within which the participant is subjected to natural or unusual physical and mental challenges such as speed, height, depth or ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Motril
Motril () is a town and municipality of Spain belonging to the province of Granada, in the autonomous community of Andalusia. The main settlement is located a few kilometers inland, separated from the Port of Motril by the Guadalfeo delta. Motril is the second most populated municipality in the province, with 60,368 inhabitants as of 2016. History Although its exact origins remain unclear, Motril started as a Phoenician enclave, and continued to exist in Roman times. Sugarcane was brought to the area by Arabs as a result of the Muslim conquest of the Iberian Peninsula. The area yielded to the Catholic Monarchs in 1489. The settlements of Pataura (an '' alquería'' featuring irrigated land) and Jolúcar (featuring mainly cattle pasture) belonged to Motril. At the turn of the 16th century its population was still overwhelmingly Muslim, and so King Ferdinand prohibited Christians from living in Motril and ruled that those Christians who owned possessions there were to reloca ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
