Frederick Kempster (1889-1918) fue un gigante y showman inglés, famoso por su estatura, también conocido como el Gigante Inglés o el Gigante de Blackburn. Medía 2,37 m (7 pies 9,3 pulgadas), tenía una envergadura de brazos que alcanzaba los 2,55 m (8 pies 4,3 pulgadas) y pesaba 170 kg (374 lb).
Entre 1967 y 1993, Kempster figuró en el Libro Guinness de los Récords como uno de los hombres más altos de Inglaterra.
Mas informacion biografica en los siguientes enlaces:
Guinness WR: https://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/news/2024/12/frederick-kempster-a-history-of-the-worlds-tallest-people
Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frederick_Kempster
Thetallestman.wiki: https://thetallestman.wiki/frederickkempster.htm
MEDICION EN FOTOGRAFIAS:
Para medir la posible altura del gigante acudí al reporte medico con sus medidas.
en la pagina 293 de ese reporte medico se menciona que el gigante fue medido en 234cm y sin la sifoescolisis alcanzaba los 237cm. Y su envergadura de brazos era de 254 cm (todo en recuadro rojo)
Teniendo un valor de envergadura de brazos y comparandolo con su estatura vertical en la siguiente imagen (tomada en 1913), el gigante esta parado a 244 cm con zapatos, pero no se puede visualizar el espesor del taco.
La siguiente imagen es la única en donde se puede ver el espesor de la suela de su zapato izquierdo con mayor claridad. El gigante parece ser mas joven en esa imagen, pero los zapatos son los mismos que en la mayoría de otras fotografías. Asumiendo que lograba pararse a 244 cm, su zapato tenia un taco de 7 cm de altura, por lo que era de al menos 237 cm descalzo.
Tengo la impresión que este gigante tenía una pierna (izquierda) mas corta que la otra. En varias imágenes su zapato izquierdo se ve mas ancho-alto y deformado que el derecho, como si apoyara solamente la punta del pie, tal como lo hacia Don Koehler por ejemplo. Por esta razón no estoy seguro si la suela del zapato derecho es de menor altura. Si ese fuera el caso el gigante sería de 237 cm parado sobre su pierna corta y de mayor altura sobre su pierna mas larga.
CORRECCION DE LA POSTURA
En promedio el gigante tendría una altura corregida de 240.6 cm descalzo, impresionante!
Hi, I was wondering if you could do an analysis of Eddie Carmel at some point and also just what your personal thoughts are on how tall he was. I've been looking at photos and videos of him lately and I believe he was really only around the 7 foot mark, maybe 218cm or 220cm max when he was younger. He doesn't seem much taller to me than people like Richard Kiel and Andre The Giant.
ResponderBorrarHis posture in photos was never great and I notice in his scenes at the end of "The Brain That Wouldn't Die" he had pretty significant kyphoscoliosis. That movie was shot in 1959 when he was only 23 so he probably always had some spinal curvature. You can see his posture and spinal curvature got really bad towards the end of his life as his health declined and I wouldn't be surprised if his standing height shrunk below the 7 foot mark.
I don't speak Spanish so I'm only able to comment in English, hope you don't mind. I love your blog by the way, this is the best resource on giants I've found since TTM became defunct. Keep up the good work!
Hi, how are you? Apologies for the delay in replying; I've been away from the blog and my computer due to work. But I'm researching Eddie Carmel and other giants, and I'll post it as soon as I have it ready. You are quite right, Eddie, possibly like the giant Sizonenko and Sandy Allen for example, greatly reduced his height due to the extreme curvature of his spine caused by kyphoscoliosis.Thank you very much for your interest.
BorrarP.S.: Don't worry, you can write to me in English! Best regards
Hi, no worries about the delay. Thanks for responding and I'm glad to hear you are interested in Eddie Carmel and planning on adding him. He was one of the "shorter" giants so he can get overlooked, but I find his life story interesting (and a bit tragic like many giants). I'm looking forward to his post. Another poster on here has commented about a giant enthusiast Discord server which I joined a few months back. I think it would be great if you joined as you are very knowledgeable about the subject, I hope you can make the time at some point to do so. Take care!
Borrar