 In September 2008 he appeared with the world's longest-legged woman, Svetlana Pankratova, in London's Trafalgar Square, to publicize the release of the 2009 edition of the "Guinness Book of World Records".In 2006 "Guinness World Records" disallowed an application from a then fourteen-year-old Nepalese boy, Khagendra Thapa Magar, who measured , but reviewed the case once he reached 18 years of age in October 2010, when he was measured at .Following his January 2007 appearance on television, in 2008 his status as the world's shortest man was verified by "Guinness World Records".