The world’s tallest and shortest man in the Guinness Book of World
Records, met each other for the first time on Thursday November
13 at an event in London.
The tallest man, 31 year-old Sultan Kosen from Turkey, a part-
time farmer, is 8 feet 3 inches tall and can reach a basketball hoop
without jumping. He became the world’s tallest living man in 2009.
He also holds the record for largest hands on a living person. His
hands measure 11.2 inches from the wrist to the tip of his middle
finger.
The shortest man, 74 year-old Chandra Bahadur Dangi, from
Nepal, is just 21½ inches tall and is the shortest adult human ever
verified by Guinness World Records. He works as a weaver who
also helps look after buffaloes & cows in his remote mountain
village of Reemkholi. He weighs just 32 pounds.
The occasion the unique men met was the 10th annual Guinness
World Records Day, which celebrates record-setting achievements
around the globe.
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