American pilot and influencer released from the Chilean air base in Antarctica

The American pilot Ethan Guo was released from a Chilean air base in Antarctica after being detained for two months for having allegedly landed his plane on Chilean territory.

Mr. Guo, 20, was released on Saturday. He was ordered to pay a donation of $ 30,000 (£ 22,332) and is forbidden to enter the Chilean territory for three years.

The young pilot and influencer is accused of having won his plane without authorization after having given the managers a false flight plan while he undertook a solo trip to the seven continents to collect funds for cancer research.

Mr. Guo does “fairly well,” said his lawyer Jaime Barrientos Ramírez to the American partner of the BBC CBS News.

“Of course, we do not agree with the legal process open against him, but he has already been closed by a type of dismissal,” said his lawyer, as CBS News reported.

He should give his penalty to infant cancer research within 30 days. He must also leave the country as soon as possible.

The BBC contacted Mr. Barrientos Ramírez to comment.

Ethan Guo was 19 years old when he embarked on his trip to become the youngest person to fly solo on each continent, and simultaneously hoped to collect $ 1 million (£ 740,300) for cancer research through the St Jude research hospital in Memphis.

Having already visited six of the seven continents, in June, he piloted his small Cessna 182Q plane in the city of Punta Arenas, near the southern point of Chile, on King George Island off the Atlantic coast.

The island is claimed by Chile and named after the British King George III.

Mr. Guo, from Tennessee, was placed in police custody after landing on the island, which houses a number of international research stations and their staff.

The authorities said he had submitted a plan to fly over Punta Arenas, but not beyond that, according to CBS News, the American BBC partner.

He was charged on June 29 for alleging false information to the ground control and landing without authorization, but they were abandoned by a judge last month.

He previously declared that he wanted to continue to continue his original mission once able to leave the military base.