Chandra Bahadur Dangi, a 72-year-old from a remote village in Dang district of south-western Nepal was on Sunday crowned the shortest man ever by Guinness World Records.
Guinness officials who took Dangi’s measurement at CIWEC Clinic Travel Medicine Centre in Kathmandu found that the septuagenarian measures just 54.6 cm (21.5 inches).
Dangi spends his days making placemats and head straps for villagers to carry heavy loads on their backs.
His nephew, Dolak Dangi, said: 'He would also look after the buffalos and cows.
'Although he could not chase them or tie them - he would call us if they strayed.'
Dangi hopes to use his new found fame to travel, admitting: 'I think things will be better now. I hope that I will be famous all over the world.
'I want to visit foreign countries and meet people from around the world.'
The cause of Mr Dangi's height problem has not been diagnosed but it is suspected that he suffers primordial dwarfism which begins in the womb.
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