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0_61_071407_tall_meets_small.jpgThe world’s tallest man has met one of the world’s smallest in China.
Bao Xishun, a 56 year-old herdsman from Inner Mongolia, is the world’s tallest man and measures 7′ 9″ tall.
Meanwhile, He Pingping is applying to be entered in the Guinness World Record as the world’s shortest adult, standing at a mere 2′ 4″.
According to the organiser of the meeting, it was He’s long-cherished dream to meet Bao.
In March, Bao married saleswoman Xia Shujian, who stands a rather average 5′ 6″, after a global search for a suitable bride.
They celebrated a traditional Mongolian wedding in the tomb of Kublai Khan on Thursday.
Bao was confirmed as the world’s tallest living man by Guinness World Records last year. He overtook the previous holder, Radhouane Charbib of Tunisia, by just 2 millimeters.
Guinness World Records says Bao was of normal height until 16 but then put on a spurt that doctors were unable to explain, reaching his full height in seven years.
But Bao is far shorter than Robert Pershing Wadlow, from Illinois in the U.S., who died in 1940 aged 22 and stood at a massive 8′ 11.1″.
What happened when the world's smallest man met the woman with the lon
One is the smallest man in the world, the other is the woman with the longest legs and the instructions from the former to the latter when they met this morning: 'Don't look up.'
At just 29.37in tall, He Ping Ping's little head barely reaches Svetlana Pankrtova's knees.
But then, her legs do go on a fair way - measuring 51.96in long.
A right knees up: The world's smallest man, He Ping Ping, and the woman with the longest legs in the world, Svetlana Pankratova, get together in London this morning
At 6ft 7in from head to toe, Pankratova is well short of being the tallest living woman. That honour goes to Yao Defen, who stands 7ft 9in.
But the Russian's relatively short body means that those pins are the longest ever recorded for a woman.
An impression she seemed keen to emphasise this morning by wearing what appeared to be the world's shortest skirt.
Not that He Ping Ping seemed to mind, happily posing underneath Pankratova's legs - and he even had a sneaky look up.
The 20-year-old had jetted in from his home in northern China to help launch the latest edition of the Guinness World Records Book in Trafalgar Square, Central London
Brought to book: Little and large on the steps of the National Gallery this morning. The pair appear for the first time in this year's edition
Craig Glenday, the book's editor, recently told the Daily Record newspaper how much he enjoyed his work.
He said: 'It's a great job, and there's so much travel involved. Earlier this year I did my own world record for travel, which was 44 hours non-stop.
'I was in Inner Mongolia meeting He Ping Ping, the world's shortest man (74.61cm) who actually lives quite near Bao Xi Shun, the world's tallest man (2m 36.1cm).
'I was on my way, via Paris, to Chile for a flight to Antarctica with the band Fall Out Boy, who were trying to set a record for the shortest time it would take to play on every continent in the world.
'Unfortunately the weather was so bad that we couldn't make it in the end.'
PinpPing sits on a piles of the new book while Pankratova stretches out her long, long legs
At just 29.37in tall, He Ping Ping's little head barely reaches Svetlana Pankrtova's knees.
But then, her legs do go on a fair way - measuring 51.96in long.
A right knees up: The world's smallest man, He Ping Ping, and the woman with the longest legs in the world, Svetlana Pankratova, get together in London this morning
At 6ft 7in from head to toe, Pankratova is well short of being the tallest living woman. That honour goes to Yao Defen, who stands 7ft 9in.
But the Russian's relatively short body means that those pins are the longest ever recorded for a woman.
An impression she seemed keen to emphasise this morning by wearing what appeared to be the world's shortest skirt.
Not that He Ping Ping seemed to mind, happily posing underneath Pankratova's legs - and he even had a sneaky look up.
The 20-year-old had jetted in from his home in northern China to help launch the latest edition of the Guinness World Records Book in Trafalgar Square, Central London
Brought to book: Little and large on the steps of the National Gallery this morning. The pair appear for the first time in this year's edition
Craig Glenday, the book's editor, recently told the Daily Record newspaper how much he enjoyed his work.
He said: 'It's a great job, and there's so much travel involved. Earlier this year I did my own world record for travel, which was 44 hours non-stop.
'I was in Inner Mongolia meeting He Ping Ping, the world's shortest man (74.61cm) who actually lives quite near Bao Xi Shun, the world's tallest man (2m 36.1cm).
'I was on my way, via Paris, to Chile for a flight to Antarctica with the band Fall Out Boy, who were trying to set a record for the shortest time it would take to play on every continent in the world.
'Unfortunately the weather was so bad that we couldn't make it in the end.'
PinpPing sits on a piles of the new book while Pankratova stretches out her long, long legs