In 2012, the Guinness Book of World Records went to Kathmandu. Their goal was to measure the height of Chandra Bahadur Dangi. Witnesses said of the petite Nepalese hat salesman that he seemed to be the shortest man in the world.
How to survive and be happy at 54 cm tal
According to Chandra Bahadur Dangi, a Nepali (he had no documentation as of 2012), he was born in November 1939. He grew up in the village of Kaimati in a large family, where he was the sixth child. Remarkably, only two of the children in that family were of normal height.
The height of three stopped at 120 cm, and Chandra stopped growing when he reached 54.6 cm
Dangi’s homeland did not have the amenities of civilization that we are accustomed to. People there had been farming and crafts for centuries. Despite his peculiarities, from an early age Chandra helped his family take care of livestock.
As an adult, Chandra mastered the craft of making jute hats. That’s what he did for a living in Kathmandu when the Book of Records came to visit him. The only disappointment in life for the incorrigible optimist Chandra was that he had no family of his own
. He had relations with women, but he warned them at once that he would never have children (the man was always afraid to pass on his peculiarity by inheritance), that’s why nobody ever married him. He passed on his craft to his nephews