London - He Pingping, the world's smallest man, met up with long-legged Svetlana Pankratova in London's Trafalger Square Tuesday, posing for a photograph showing him standing up comfortably between her legs. Pingping, 20, from Inner Mongolia, is just 74.61 centimetres tall - a result of his being born with a condition known as primordial dwarfism.
Meanwhile Pankratova, a 36-year-old estate agent from Volvograd, Russia, boasts a height of 1.96 metres, with her legs alone measuring 132 centimetres.
The pair met on the steps of Trafalgar Square to pose for the launch of the 2009 edition of the Guinness World Records book, which is published Wednesday.
