Why spend 40 days underground and out of time?

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40 days.

© Bruno MAZODIER

By: Caroline Lachowsky

1 min

Why spend 40 days underground and out of time?

Back to Deep Time, a collective scientific adventure led by explorer Christian Clot to test the limits of human adaptation.

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Let's share an extraordinary research experience: 40 days underground and out of time! To test the human capacities of adaptation to the most extreme conditions, our guest the explorer and researcher

locked himself with 15 volunteers in a cave in Ariège for 40 days, without a calendar, without a watch, without any notion of the time. Isolated together in this immense cave maze, how did they (or not) synchronize and locate themselves? How did they react physically, cerebrally and psychologically to this experience in front of the limits?

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, explorer, for his book

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On March 14, 2021, at the initiative of the Human Adaptation Research Institute, a team of 15 volunteers embarked on a timeless adventure: they will stay 40 days locked in the Lombrives cave (Ariège), the one of the largest caves in Europe.

All without any date or time information ...

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