World's shortest man - in pictures

Chandra Bahadur Dangi, 72, the world's shortest man at a height of 54.6cm (21.5in), walks near his home in Nepal Photograph: Prakash Mathema/AFP/Getty Images

Dangi is carried by his nephew Tilak on the way to his village, Rimkholi, 167 miles west of the Nepalese capital, Kathmandu Photograph: Prakash Mathema/AFP/Getty Images

Dangi tends to goats at his village Photograph: Prakash Mathema/AFP/Getty Images

Dangi stands as villagers measure him Photograph: Prakash Mathema/AFP/Getty Images

Dangi speaks to the media at Tribhuvan international airport in Kathmandu Photograph: Navesh Chitrakar/Reuters

Dangi at a guesthouse hours before being measured by officials in Kathmandu Photograph: Niranjan Shrestha/AP

Dangi goes through a final height verification at CWIC hospital in Kathmandu before officials decide whether he is shorter than Junrey Balawing of the Philippines, who holds the title of world's shortest man at 59.7cm (23.5in) Photograph: Narendra Shrestha/EPA

Craig Glenday, right, chief editor of the Guinness Book of Records, hands over a certificate to Dangi at a ceremony in Kathmandu after he was officially recognised as the shortest man ever and the shortest man living by Guinness World Records Photograph: Narendra Shrestha/EPA