Seventy-two-year-old Chandra Bahadur Dangi arrives in Kathmandu from his remote village in Western Nepal.
At 22 inches tall, he is hoping to be crowned the world's shortest man by the Guinness Book of World Records.
It's the first time Dangi has left his village.
"I just stay at home, doing household chores."
And it's not clear whether new-found fame will change the diminutive man's regular routine.
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