The tallest people on the planet. Giants

Tales and legends tell us about giants. But it turns out that the fiction has a good reason. Looking into the recent past, we will be convinced that such truly giants lived and live next to us.

From a physiological point of view, this is, of course, an anomaly, and tall people have various diseases. A person also has purely everyday difficulties with the selection of clothes and movement.

Let's scroll through the photos of the past, look into the book of unique world records, and find out which is the tallest person on the planet, because meeting such people in real life is a rare case.

Bernard Coyne. USA

When Bernard was born, and this happened in 1897, records have not yet been recorded, for this reason there are discrepancies in the exact growth of an American. Official US sources claim that his height was 2 meters 49 centimeters, unofficial ones say that Bernard was 4 centimeters taller.

Doctors note that Bernard grew throughout his short life. From birth, the boy had various diseases, which caused an early death at the age of 23.

Don Kehler. USA

Born in 1925, Don Koehler has long been the tallest man in the world. The high growth of almost two and a half meters was the result of acromegaly.

An anomaly in physiology manifested itself in Don at a young age. An interesting fact is that the disease did not affect his twin sister, who was of ordinary height.

Don Koehler died at the age of 55 due to heart disease.

Vikas Appal. India

Like other tall people, Vikas added new centimeters every year, and every year experts recorded new indicators. In the summer of 2005, the growth of a tall Indian was 2 meters 63 centimeters.

The young man had a truly gigantic size, limbs. The palms are 33 centimeters, and the feet reached half a meter.

Doctors constantly monitored Vikas, and when a brain tumor was discovered in him, they offered to perform an operation. During the operation, the big Indian, the favorite of all India, died, and he was only 21 years old at the time of the operation.

Edward Beaupre. Canada

The Canadian, unlike other giants, had excellent health and possessed incredible strength. Edward used his unusual parameters, got a job in a circus, and began to earn money from this.

With a height of 2 meters 51 centimeters, he surprised the audience, having traveled all over Canada and the USA with tours. But in 1904 he fell ill with tuberculosis, which at that time was incurable. The Canadian giant and strongman died at the age of 23.

Until 1990, the embalmed body of Edward, contrary to all principles of morality and ethics, was an exhibit at the University of Montreal. The descendants achieved through the courts the cremation and burial of their famous relative.

Vaino Millirinne. Finland

Finn Weilu, with a height of 2 meters 51 centimeters, is the only one of the tall people who served in the army.

From an early age, the guy developed quite normally, but after 21 years he began to grow due to a malfunction of the pituitary gland. Doctors began to observe the man, and noted that every year his growth increases. The highest Finn lived only 54 years and died in 1963.

The Finnish giant went down in history as the only tall man in the country and the world who served in the army.

Leonid Stadnik. Ukraine

A boy was born in the Zhytomyr region, who in 2007 topped the list of the tallest people of our time. The height of the Ukrainian, by that time, was 2 meters 57 centimeters.

When Leonid was a teenager, he underwent brain surgery, after which he began to grow. But he confidently walked towards his dream, graduated from school, became a veterinarian.

For the last two years of his life, Leonid could not move without outside help; overweight was added to his height. A sudden brain hemorrhage led to the death of the Ukrainian giant in 2014.

John Carroll. USA

The American John Carroll, whom his friends called "Red Carroll", had a curvature of the spine. Because of this, it was very difficult to fix its exact growth.

Doctors noted his height at 2 meters 63 centimeters, but adjusted due to illness, he could reach 274 centimeters. Deviations in development began at the age of 16 and continued throughout life. John died in his native Buffalo at the age of 37.

Joe Rogan. USA

One photograph of the end of the 19th century preserved in the history of Joe Rogan, who was born in the family of a freed slave, and just imagine, he was the 12th child in the family.

According to unconfirmed reports, an abnormal leap in development was recorded from the age of 13. By the age of 30, the growth of a black American was already 2.68 meters.

With such parameters, it was difficult for him to move around, because of which a number of diseases developed. Joe died in 1905, presumably at the age of 40.

Robert Wadlow. USA

An American with a height of 2.72 meters rightfully occupies a leading position among the tallest people who have ever walked the planet.

Robert proved to the whole world that abnormal growth is not a hindrance to a successful career. He graduated from the university, performed with the circus, was a member of the Masonic Lodge.

"The Good Giant," as his compatriots affectionately called him, made many speeches throughout America. During one of the performances, the crutch rubbed his leg, causing blood poisoning. This was the cause of Robert's death in the summer of 1940.

Sultan Kosen. Türkiye

Turkish citizen Sultan Kösen with a record height of 2 meters 52 centimeters is today the tallest person in the world among his contemporaries.

The modern development of medicine made it possible to perform a successful operation on the pituitary gland, and the Turkish farmer stopped growing. Perhaps this will save him in the future from many health problems that such giants experienced.

But problems still exist. The Sultan complains about the inability to purchase clothes and shoes, because everything has to be made to order.

Fyodor Makhnov. Russia

The growth of a native of the Vitebsk province was not officially recorded, but according to the stories of his contemporaries, Fedor grew under 2 meters 85 centimeters.

Like all the giants of that time, he performed a lot in the circus, traveled half the world. But over time, he got tired of it, and the giant returned to his native land.

It is noteworthy that his wife, teacher Efrosinya Lebedeva, also had a large height of 215 centimeters. The unusual couple had 5 children, also not small in stature, but not one of them grew above 2 meters.

Conclusion

In conclusion, we note that medicine has recorded growth anomalies in women. For example, the growth of Li Yu-jin, who lived in the first half of the twentieth century, was supposedly 2.8 meters. But nowhere, except for the book "Acromegaly and Gigantism", where the tallest people are gathered, this is not recorded.

Today's medicine can diagnose diseases associated with disorders of the endocrine glands at an early stage, which makes it possible to stop the abnormal growth of the body.

High growth is undoubtedly an anomaly, but scientists record the constant growth of mankind, and perhaps in hundreds of years, growth under 3 meters will become commonplace.