High hopes: world’s tallest man finds love in store

A LOVELORN Chinese herdsman who is the world’s tallest man has finally found his other half in a sales clerk who comes up to his elbow.

Bao Xishun, who stands 2.36 metres (7’ 9”) will marry 1.68-metre Xia Shujun, who is also half the groom’s age at just 28, the Beijing News reported.

The 56-year-old Bao had conducted a worldwide search for a bride who is up to becoming Ms Bao, but eventually found Xia, a saleswoman in a clothing store, in his own home region of Inner Mongolia in northern China, it said.