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World's shortest man wants to travel
September 7, 2010, Tuesday
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EDWARD Nino Hernandez is in many ways a typical 24-year-old Colombian male. He loves to dance reggaeton, dreams of owning a car - preferably a Mercedes - and wants to see the world.
Top on his list of people he would like to meet are Jackie Chan, Sylvester Stallone and former Colombian President Alvaro Uribe.
What sets Nino (pronounced NEE-nyoh) apart is his size.
He is slightly taller than a piece of carry-on luggage and weighs just 10 kilograms.
Nino has been officially certified as the world's shortest living man by Guinness World Records, measuring 70 centimeters.
"He hasn't grown since he was two years old," his mother, Noemi Hernandez, said of the oldest of her five living children.
The previous titleholder was He Pingping of China, who was 4 centimeters taller and died on March 13. The Guinness people discovered Nino afterward.
They say Nino's reign is not likely to last long, however.
Khagendra Thapa Magar of Nepal is expected to take over after he turns 18 on October 14. He measures about 56 centimeters and is now recognized by Guinness as the shortest living teen.
Doctors never could explain why Nino is so small, his parents say.
"They never gave us a diagnosis," his mother, Noemi Hernandez, said in the family's sparely furnished apartment in Bosa, a mostly poor district of southern Bogota.
Hernandez, 43, said Nino weighed just 1.5 kilograms at birth and was 38 centimeters long.
She said doctors at the National University studied him until he was three, then lost interest.
She and her husband, a security guard, lost a daughter who was similarly small in 1992 when she was about to complete a year of life.
"I feel happy because I'm unique," Nino said.
But being the world's smallest man does have its drawbacks.
"It bothers me that people are (always) touching me and picking me up," he said.
Top on his list of people he would like to meet are Jackie Chan, Sylvester Stallone and former Colombian President Alvaro Uribe.
What sets Nino (pronounced NEE-nyoh) apart is his size.
He is slightly taller than a piece of carry-on luggage and weighs just 10 kilograms.
Nino has been officially certified as the world's shortest living man by Guinness World Records, measuring 70 centimeters.
"He hasn't grown since he was two years old," his mother, Noemi Hernandez, said of the oldest of her five living children.
The previous titleholder was He Pingping of China, who was 4 centimeters taller and died on March 13. The Guinness people discovered Nino afterward.
They say Nino's reign is not likely to last long, however.
Khagendra Thapa Magar of Nepal is expected to take over after he turns 18 on October 14. He measures about 56 centimeters and is now recognized by Guinness as the shortest living teen.
Doctors never could explain why Nino is so small, his parents say.
"They never gave us a diagnosis," his mother, Noemi Hernandez, said in the family's sparely furnished apartment in Bosa, a mostly poor district of southern Bogota.
Hernandez, 43, said Nino weighed just 1.5 kilograms at birth and was 38 centimeters long.
She said doctors at the National University studied him until he was three, then lost interest.
She and her husband, a security guard, lost a daughter who was similarly small in 1992 when she was about to complete a year of life.
"I feel happy because I'm unique," Nino said.
But being the world's smallest man does have its drawbacks.
"It bothers me that people are (always) touching me and picking me up," he said.
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