Blue Collar Worker at Sehwan Sharif Mazar, Circus Worker
Height
7 ft 8 in (234 cm)
Haji Mohammad Alam Channa (1953 – 2 July 1998) was a Pakistani farmer who was one of the tallest living people with the height of 7.8 feet (2.4 m).[1][2] According to the Guinness Book of World Records, the tallest living man in the world (between 1982 and 1998), was Pakistan's Mohammad Alam Channa. Before his death in 1998, Channa was reported to be 7.7 feet (2.3 m) tall.[3]
Born in 1953 in the city of Sehwan (in Pakistan's Sindh province), Alam Channa is said to have stood 6 ft 4 inches by the time he was 18. He continued to grow taller till he was 26.
Channa came from an impoverished Sindhi family. He did not receive any noteworthy education. The male members of his family had traditionally served as minor retainers at the famous shrine of Sufi saint, Lal Shahbaz Qalandar, in Shewan. Here is where Channa too spent most of his years, tasked to keep certain areas of the shrine clean. According to Channa's paternal side of the family, Channa was making just Rs. 15 a week at the shrine. So when the circus offered him Rs. 160 a month, he decided to immediately accept the offer.
The circus turned Channa into a local star. He would travel with it across the length and breadth of Sindh. All he had to do was to make an entry just when two short men dressed as jokers were going through their routine. He would walk in and proceed to lift up the jokers (who would pretend to run away from the giant). Channa would grab them and then put them on his shoulders.
In 1981 a man who had watched Channa at the circus wrote a letter to the editors of the famous Guinness Book of World Records. With the letter he also sent some photos of Channa he had taken at the circus.
Months later some officials from Guinness landed in Sindh's capital city, Karachi, and from there they reached Sehwan where they met and measured Channa. They measured him at being 7 ft 8 inches. On their return to the UK, the men entered Channa's name in the Guinness book as the tallest living human on earth.[3]
He suffered from kidney failure and high blood pressure. The government decided to send him to the US and finance his treatment.[4] He was admitted to the Westchester Medical Center in Valhalla, New York but died there on 2 July.[5] He is buried in Sehwan.[6]
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