the Guinness World Records title holder
for the tallest living person really is
probably the most iconic record that we
have and always has been from our very
first edition when Robert Wadlow made
his first appearance mankind has always
really interested in extremes Robert
would live escape the attention of
surgeons all surgeons were not confident
enough to operate on him and therefore
he might well remain the tallest man for
a very long time I'm always amazed that
Robert Wadlow record has never been
beaten just mostly because really the
the Internet has made the wealth as a
small place and finding these people now
is much much easier than it's ever been
and yet we still haven't found anyone to
be 8 foot 11 it's something you can't
cheat at you are the tallest or you're
not the tallest and it's a record that
very few when the book started thought
would ever be being resonates across the
whole world because every country
understands how powerful this record is
for being the tallest living person if
one is talking about abnormalities about
pathology about illness leading to
gigantic pituitary tumors are the only
possibility there is nothing else that
will make somebody grow so tall so I've
had the pleasure of meeting unmet
reading most of the world's tallest
people in the last 12 years particularly
Sultan Carson is one that I've stuck in
my mind it's such a gentle lovely guy no
more doctors
fufu clothes and shoes you really fit
into like so you'd have to get them made
especially finding clothes when you're
the world's tallest man a woman that can
be a real nightmare these for example of
shoes donated by a shoemaker in Germany
who feeling sorry for most well this man
decided he would try and help her by
creating these kind of amazing shoes you
obviously can't buy anywhere the one
page probably that everyone turns to is
the tallest man and and I remember
myself looking for the tallest man and
he was with the shortest woman and you
can't believe that anybody would ever be
that small all that tall he stands out
he is unique he is a phenomenon it is
such a fundamental record I'm sure or no
be and every other book we ever do for
the next 60 years
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