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.
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