He is one of only ten people to ever top 8ft, and was awarded the Guinness World Record for being the tallest man alive in 2009. Kosen has since appeared alongside the world's smallest woman ...

Chandra Bahadur Dangi, from Nepal, (R) the shortest adult to have ever been verified by Guinness World Records, is pictured with the world's tallest man Sultan Kosen from Turkey, during a ...