The highest in the world

This article contains the holders of the highest growth and height, whether human, animal, plant or impressive building. Learn about the ten winners of the title "world's highest"!

10. The tallest tropical tree in the world (Malaysia)

28-year-old forester Mateus Nunes (Matheus Nunes) walked bamboo groves, up to the mountains and went through the harsh, rugged areas of Malaysia, to find what may be the world's tallest tropical tree. Finally, after hours of searching and a few scratches and bruises, he found two kinds of wood Shoreya'a: one at 90, 6 meters and more - 89, 5 meters.

The height of both trees is superior to the world record in 2007. Then the Americans found another tree in Malaysia, a height of 88 meters, which, before the discovery of Nunez in August 2015, was considered the tallest tropical tree in the world.

The height of these trees is explained by genetics of the species, however, according to Nunez, not known for any reason one of them is more than 90 meters, which is equivalent to the height of 30-storey building.

9. The highest lift in the world (China)

People with bouts of dizziness lift the elevator is always given a hard time, and this will not be possible at all! His height - 326 meters!

Glass elevator Baylong (Bailong Elevator), adjacent to one of the rocks, is the world's tallest elevator, built in the open. He can drop off people at the top and go down to the ground in just 2 minutes, sandwiching of up to 50 people at a time.

Located in the picturesque area of ​​Wulingyuan (Wulingyuan), Zhangjiajie Forest Park (Zhangjiajie), lift known as "sky lift a hundred dragons." Not surprising!

8. The highest pair in the world (England)

is made in the amount of more than 4 meters, this couple is the highest in the world. But if children Wilco (Wilco) and Keisha van Kleef-Bolton (Keisha Van Kleef-Bolton) will continue to grow in the same spirit, then eventually they will become the highest in the world family. Their 4-year-old son Lucas (Lucas) has already achieved growth of 7-year-old child - 1, 19 meters. A daughter of Eve (Eva), of which only two years, the growth has 0, 91 meters, is a typical 3-year-old child. For Cliff Bolton-high growth has its pluses and minuses. When the plug and Keisha only married (he - 2, 13m, it - 1, 96 meters), they are faced with some difficulties household, such as, for example, modification of doorways, on which they are constantly hits his head.

However, it is still able to be converted into a home to grow. The couple still a bedroom which is only large enough for a standard double bed, so long as they are forced to sleep with his feet dangling. However, there are pluses: 29-year-old Wilco says that its growth does its job as a security guard at the College Barking & Dagenham (Barking and Dagenham College) in Essex "much easier."

7. The highest filing cabinet in the world (the United States)

Built in 2002 by local artist Brenna Alvarez (Bren Alvarez) to Burlington (Burlington), Vermont, this filing cabinet consists of 38 boxes. Each box represents a certain year of work on various projects, for which the accumulated documents.

While the art object Alvarez proudly claims to be the highest filing cabinet on the planet, it remains unclear whether in fact so, since there are other works of art, also claim to have this title.

6. The world's tallest giraffe (in captivity)

As a height of 5, 79 meter, giraffe named Zulu (Zulu)-1, 22 meters above the average congener, thus ignoring lanky being of a kind.

Zulu lives in a zoo Folly Farm Adventure in Pembrokeshire (Pembrokeshire), Wales, United Kingdom. He is taller than any other animals living in captivity, and three other male giraffe, which divides the cage in a zoo. The height of a giraffe, the average is 4, 57 meters from head to toe. Although Zulu is the highest animals living in captivity, zoo staff are not able to measure the exact height of 18-year-old giraffe.

5. The highest "dive coaster" (USA)

If the roller coaster does not lead you to the delight, we recommend a ride on the "Valravn" - beating all records "dive coaster" ( "dive coaster"), which opened in early May in the Park "Cedar Point" entertainment in Sandusky (Sandusky), Ohio, USA.

This steel monster combining fear and delight is the highest (68 m), very high speed (120, 7 km / h) and the most extensive (1041 m) "windowed slide" in the world.

For the uninitiated, "dive coaster" - a kind of attraction "Rollercoaster", where you can feel the moment of free fall at the time, at least a 90-degree drop.

4. The highest church in the world (Germany)

According to the Guinness Book of Records, the tallest church in the world is the Ulm Cathedral - Lutheran church in the city of Ulm, Germany. Construction of buildings, started back in the gothic era, was completed in the end of XIX century.

It is the tallest church in the world and 4th in height building, erected to the XX century. Its height with a spire is 161, 5 meters, and a ladder by which you can climb to the top, consists of 768 steps.

On the upper platform located at a height of 143 meters, it offers a panoramic view of the city of Ulm in Baden-Württemberg (Baden-Württembergand), the city of Neu-Ulm (Neu-Ulm) in Bavaria, and in clear weather - the Alps. Last ladder section (known as "third gallery") is a high spiral staircase on which one person barely fit.

3. The highest Christmas tree in the world (Netherlands)

Combining free-standing tower and antenna mast with stretch marks, Tower Gerbrand (Gerbrandy Tower) is the tallest television and radio broadcasting tower in the Netherlands. More impressive, however, it is what it turns into a winter holidays. Every year at Christmas the workers turn a tower 366, 8 meters in the world's highest Christmas tree.

The visible from a distance of 50 kilometers, a Christmas tree, the tower is made using white lamps enshrined along the cable supporting the entire structure. The process of registration is very costly, so the highest Christmas tree in the world was supposed to set every five years, but thanks to the sponsors of the tower continue to decorate the lights every year.

Built in 1961, the tower Gerbrand was at one time the tallest man-made structure in Europe, reaching 382, ​​5 meters in height.

2. The highest dwarf in the world (Austria)

On the life of Adam Rainer (Adam Rainer) Very little is known, but it is an extraordinary event in the history of medicine: an Austrian is the only officially registered person in history, who during his lifetime was a dwarf and a giant.

Adam Rainer was born in 1899 and was significantly lower than the average person. In 1920, when he was 21 years old, Adam growth was 1, 18 m. Doctors officially classified it as a dwarf.

Somewhere in the middle of the third decade of life have become Rainer observed inexplicable and amazing growth spurt and to its 32-th anniversary of it unusually small man turned into a giant growth of 2, 18 meters.

Incredibly stable rate of growth has exhausted all the resources of the body of man and, eventually, chained Adam Rainer to bed. Later it was discovered that he had a benign tumor on the pituitary gland, which became the reason for its continued growth. Adam Rainer died at the age of 51. At the time of death, its growth was 2, 34 meters - in two times higher than it was in the 21 years of age.

1. The highest statue of Lord Shiva in the world (Nepal)

Who would have thought that the highest statue of Shiva (Shiva), also known as the statue Kaylashnath Mahadev (Kailashnath Mahadev), may be in the tiny Asian country of Nepal?

The statue, which has become a major tourist attraction in the country is 43, 5 meters. This magnificent building is located in Sanga (Sanga), almost 20 kilometers from the capital, Kathmandu, on the border between the two areas - Kabrepalanchok (Kavrepalanchwok) and Baktapur (Bhaktapur).

To complete the construction of the statue depicting the Hindu deity Shiva, the supreme god, hundreds of workers from Nepal and India took 7 years. The figure was made from copper, zinc, steel and cement.

Apart from its pedestal, Shiva statue itself is 108 feet (32, 92 m) in height. The number 108 has a special significance in the Hindu mythology.