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Re:Spanish climber emerges after 500 days in cave by loeg on Friday April 14, 2023 @01:34PM (#35572247)
If you can go 7 days you can probably do 500.
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Re:Spanish climber emerges after 500 days in cave by egman_ekki on Friday April 14, 2023 @05:47PM (#35575216)
You might want to watch Alone reality show. It can get tougher with time. It’s not easy to be alone.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alone_(TV_series)

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Re:Spanish climber emerges after 500 days in cave by odd_perfect_num on Friday April 14, 2023 @11:40PM (#35577432)
Starving is the main problem they face though.
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Re:Spanish climber emerges after 500 days in cave by bruce511 on Saturday April 15, 2023 @01:20AM (#35577820)
Generally it seems to be three groups of people.

Some go early. They're not suitably skilled to get food of they quickly figure out this isn't for them (one guy quit once before the first night.) In later seasons this group is very small.

Around the 30-50 day mark the emotional part comes into play. Quite a few quit for emotional reasons.

Once the hard-cores are left, then it comes down to food. At that point it becomes a race to see who can out-starve the others, without getting pulled for medical reasons.

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