The exact length of Tran Van Hay’s unwashed hair was unclear but some estimates put it as long as 6.8 metres.
China’s Xie Qiuping is on record as having the world’s longest hair, measured at 5.6 metres in 2004, according to the Guinness World Records. […]
Hay, whose hair weighed several pounds, died at home Wednesday in the southern province of Kien Giang at the age of 79, Vietnam News said.
Telegraph: Man ‘with world’s longest hair dies’
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