Wearing
only his underpants, Gao Bingguo set a new Guinness World Record after he
covered himself with almost 1.1 million bees, collectively weighing 240 pounds.
The
55-year-old beekeeper accomplished the feat Monday morning in Tai'an, China.
Bingguo
was stung more than 2,000 times and his body temperature rose to a burning 140
degrees at one point.
Fellow
beekeepers started by first placing a number of queen bees on his body to help
attract worker bees. Boxes of bees were later dumped at his feet in
increasingly large numbers as the bees crawled on his entire body -- except his
mouth.
Binguo
smoked a cigarette to prevent the bees from swarming his lips
How far can you go to win a world record?