Coming face to waist with the world's tallest man is not something one is going to forget in a hurry. We were minding our own in Beijing's Terminal 3 when all of a sudden the light dimmed as the shadow of the tallest man in the world was cast over us.

You see big people on TV and sure, they look huge b ut, when you actually see them in the flesh they are so, so much bigger.




His walking-stick is like a roach pole!







His wife didn't appear to be with him but, saying that, she's so small that maybe I'd have needed a macro lens to capture her too.