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Charlie Lyon

US mountaineer who claims to have climbed Everest in quickest time ever from sea to summit arrested in Nepal over cash smuggling allegations

Plane coming into land at Kathmandu airport.

A Ukrainian-American mountaineer, who claimed to have made the fastest ascent of Mount Everest from sea level, has been accused of money smuggling.

According to The Himalayan Times, Andrew Ushakov was detained at Tribhuvan International Airport in Kathmandu for illegally carrying a large sum of undeclared foreign currency.

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