Click to play videoNew Delhi: The Guinness Book of World Records has declared Ukrainian man as the world's tallest man.
Thirty-seven-year-old Leonid Stadnik stands eight foot four inches tall. An unmarried farmer he says that it's little things that have held him back.
He has trouble using cell phones and even getting into his car.
Stadnik, born in 1971, had a defect in his brain that was operated on, thus stimulating his pituitary gland and creating a growth spurt from the age of 14.
Stadnik had refused to allow the Guinness Book of World Records to measure his height, press reports said.
The Ukrainian giant does not seem genetically predisposed to great height as his parents are only 1.52 and 1.73 metres tall.
Stadnik had to give up his job and he was unable to use normal means of transport, news reports said. He was also unable to afford his size 64 shoes.
Currently, Stadnik tends the garden and the house of his parents in the village of Podolyantsi.
(With inputs from Agencies)
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