A 22-year-old man from south India set a Guinness World Record after holding 60,000 bees on his face for 4 hours and 10 minutes.<br /><br />Video of his record, set on October 18, shows off his incredible self-control as the stinging insects swarm him, until he clears the record and they are scraped away by his attendants. <br /><br />The bee man known by his original name Nature (a mononym), from Thrissur in Kerala state, was introduced to a bee-farm at the age of 7 by his father Sajaya Kumar, who is an award-winning beekeeper. The bee-farm was a venture of his father which he had started in his teenage and wanted his son to continue the legacy.<br /><br />Since then Nature has never stepped back as he has devoted his life to the welfare of these insects. Nature talks about his childhood and the days he started feeling a strong affection towards the bees. He also shares the journey of becoming the "Bee Man" and becoming a world recorder holder.<br /><br />He says: “Since I was a child I used to visit the honeybee farm with my dad, and one day he asked me to hold bees in my hand, that is when I started showing an interest in these tiny insects. After a month, he asked me if I could put a bee on my face and that’s how the journey began.”<br /><br />He said it was a strange feeling at first, but as he got used to it, he became slightly comfortable with them on his face. The initial practice began at 1 hour and then it kept increasing with time.<br /><br />Nature says, “I used to do it initially for 1 hour then thought of trying for more, and could sit with bees on my face for more than 4 hours.”
