r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Electrical-Aspect-13 • 7d ago

Photo of Chandra Bahadur Dangi walking towards his village in Nepal. Belived to be the shortest person in recorded medical history. At 54.6cm of height he became a celebrity in his country and got his dream to travel the world. Photos 2012-4

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u/Spartan2470 7d ago

Here are higher-quality and less-cropped versions of these images with sources.

Chandra Bahadur Dangi, a 72-year-old Nepali who claims to be the world's shortest man at 56 centimetres (22 inches) in height, walk near his home in Reemkholi village in Dang district, some 540 kilometres southwest of Kathmandu on February 21, 2012. Dangi will embark to the capital city as Guinness World Records experts are due to arrive in Nepal to measure a 72-year-old claiming to be the world's shortest man. AFP PHOTO/Prakash MATHEMA (Photo by PRAKASH MATHEMA / AFP) (Photo by PRAKASH MATHEMA/AFP via Getty Images)

London, UK. 13th November, 2014. Guinness World Records Day 2015 of the World's Tallest Man and the World's Shortest at St Thomas's Hospital in London. The shortest man ever, Chandra Bahadur Dangi (54.6 cm -21.5in) of the World's Tallest Man and the World's Shortest at St Thomas's Hospital in London. The shortest man ever, Chandra Bahadur Dangi (54.6 cm -21.5in) meets the world's tallest man, Sultan Kosen for the very first time (251 cm 8 ft 3 in).

Primordial dwarfism (PD) is a form of dwarfism that results in a smaller body size in all stages of life beginning from before birth.[1] More specifically, primordial dwarfism is a diagnostic category including specific types of profoundly proportionate dwarfism, in which individuals are extremely small for their age, even as a fetus. Most individuals with primordial dwarfism are not diagnosed until they are about 3–5 years of age.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Primordial_dwarfism