Showing posts with label Nepal. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Nepal. Show all posts

Monday, February 27, 2012

World's shortest person lives in Nepal - 54.6cm high, official - video




The world's shortest man - indeed the shortest person ever - is officially named as 72-year-old Chandra Bahadur Dangi of Nepal.

Dangi, who lives in a remote village 250 miles west of Kathmandu, has been measured at 54.6 cm (21.5 inches) high by Guinness World Records. He has been given two certificates.

He has five brothers of average height and his family doesn't know when he stopped growing.

Dangi wants to travel across Nepal and the world.

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Monday, September 19, 2011

Earthquake rocks India, Nepal and Tibet - dozens killed

A magnitude 6.8 earthquake has struck north east India, Nepal and Tibet, with dozens killed and injured.

Three people were killed, including an 8-year-old, when a wall collapsed at the British embassy in Nepal.

The quake epicentre was in the Indian mountain state of Sikkim, where several people were killed.

BBC

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