North of Chiang Mai, Thailand. 11 March 1986

On our hill-tribe trek we met a “witch doctor” with matted hair metres long. Our guide said he had the Guinness world record for the longest hair.

I checked Google and found some references to him – Hoo Sateow – and his brother Yee. Apparently he did have the record and there is an interesting video of him from around 1997: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hGHADMTWfyE 

It looks like the same home and village we visited. A news report stated that Hoo died a year before his brother in 2001 aged 91.