Alam Channa
Haji Mohammad Alam Channa was a Pakistani farmer who was one of the tallest living people with the height of. According to the Guinness Book of World Records, he was the tallest living man in the world between 1982 and 1998. Before his death in 1998, Channa was reported to be tall.
Biography
Born in 1954 in the city of Sehwan in Sindh, 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 belonged to an indigent Sindhi family. He could not get any significant education. He got married in 1989 and have son born in Chicago in August 1990 namely Abid Ali Channa presently he lives in Houston.In 1981, a man who had watched Channa at the Dargah Hazrat Lal Shahbaz Qalandar Sehwan Sharif and sent a letter and some photos of Channa to the Guinness Book of World Records.
Months later, some officials went to Sehwan and measured Channa at 7 ft 8 inches. Channa's was listed in the Guinness book as the tallest living human on earth.