According to the Guinness Book of Records, the smallest living person on the planet is the Nepalese Chandra Bahadur Dangi, born on November 30, 1939. It was he who was able to break the previous record, overtaking the Filipino Junri Baluing, who was previously the smallest man, by a centimeter.
Who is Chandra Bahadur Dangi
The 72-year-old native of Nepal, who is 54.6 centimeters (21.5 inches) tall and weighs 14.5 kilograms (32 pounds), lives in the small and rather isolated village of Rimholi, 400 kilometers from Kathmandu … Chandra has 5 brothers and 2 sisters. The smallest person in the world, despite his small stature, owns a rather complex profession that requires a lot of manual labor. Chandra Bahadur Dangi is a weaver. In addition, the Nepalese leads a rather active lifestyle, helping his family and herding cattle.
Chandra Bahadur Dangi is also famous for quite good health. As the Nepalese himself says, he never got very sick and, despite his rather impressive age, did not take any medications and never even visited a doctor, since there is no great need for this.
In addition, Chandra Bahadur Dangi is optimistic about the world and never complains about fate, not counting that life and nature treated him somehow harshly. If, due to the peculiarities of physiology, he cannot do something on his own, he simply turns to other people for help. The only thing that upsets Chandra is that, due to his small stature, he could not marry and lived to the eighth dozen without a wife, children and grandchildren.
The growth of the Nepalese helped his family and village, since after the recognition of his record, a charity event was created to help a small settlement, which is the birthplace of the record holder.
How Chandra Bahadur Dangi Walked To His Record
The growth of the Nepalese was recorded by Craig Glenday himself, the editor-in-chief of the Guinness Book of Records, who measured the growth of Chandra three times during the day. After that, in 2012, the native of Nepal was recognized as the smallest person in the world.
In addition to Junri Baluing, Chandra was able to leave behind the Indian Gul Mohammed, whose height is 60 centimeters.
In addition to the main record, Chandra Bahadur Dangi was also recognized as the oldest of all stunted people. True, this record is very formal, since in the native village of the Nepalese there is no clear record of the age of the inhabitants. Therefore, 72 years is the approximate age of Chandra, according to the words of himself and his relatives.
The Nepalese himself reacted to the award of the Guinness Book status in the following way: “I am very glad that I got into the Guinness Book of Records, and that my name will now be written in the book. This is a big deal for my family, my village and my country. I am very happy.
