At a special event in London yesterday, the world's tallest man and smallest man met each other for the first time.

Home to the world’s highest peak, Mount Everest, Nepal yesterday added another height-related superlative — of having the world’s shortest man.

Pilloried by neighbours, laughed at in freakshows, and spurned by the women he admired from afar, Chandra Bahadur Dangi has always seen his tiny stature as a curse.