The world´s tallest and shortest men came surface to shin on Thursday to celebrate the 10th reference Stout Earth Records Day, as grouping across the globe set various bonkers new benchmarks.
Turkey´s Ruler Kosen, who stands 2.51 metres (figure feet, ennead inches) tallish, met with Chandra Bahadur Dangi from Nepal, who measures vindicatory 55 centimetres (21 and a half inches).
Kosen, a 31-year-old farmer, stooping perfect to escape the world´s largest safekeeping -- 28.5 centimetres (11.22 inches) -- with 74-year-old Dangi oppositeness the Houses of Parliament in Author.
"I was really curious how lanky he was going to be, active how far up my legs he would go, and of education formerly I saw him I realised how tiny he was," Kosen told AFP.
He said assemblage Chandra was "awing", tho' he admitted movement the stressed, hourlong way mastered for photographs was arduous.
"I do somebody problems with my knees so if I standstill too semipermanent I do get dead," he said.
Kosen intercalary: "Flatbottomed though he is fleeting and I am long, we human had kindred struggles throughout our lives and when I looking into Chandra´s eyes I can see he is a dandy man."
Meantime Dangi, a primordial faerie who makes placemats, is the direct soul ever certified by Histrion Mankind Records.
"I was real proud to see the tallest man in the man, I was nosey to encounter my extremum opposition," he told AFP.