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20 02 2010

Unexpected age and height

Posted by: Ben in Nepal, Miscellaneous

I really didn’t expect that the oldest woman I have yet met and tallest man I have yet seen would be encountered here in Nepal.

But in my recent visit to one of UMN’s offices in Nepal’s south-east I got to meet my friend Kchitiz’ grandmother – who has just clocked up 100 years and still collects water, weeds in the garden, and gets out and about on her farm in Jhapa District.

In neighbouring Morang District lives a man who is 7′9″. He looked even more uncomfortable in a rickshaw than I do, I’m sure.

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