Man With World’s Longest Fingernails Finally Cuts It After 66 Years

Jaiyeorie July 16, 2018

An octogenarian with the world’s longest fingernails measuring over 9 metres has finally cut it after 66 years.

Shridhar Chillal, an octogenarian with the world’s longest fingernails measuring over 9 metres, finally cut his coiled appendages after 66 years at a ceremony in New York.

The video, which was shared by Guinness World Records, shows Chillal getting his nails getting cut using an industrial cutter instead of the regular nail clipper.

“At the age of 82, having grown the nails on his left hand for 66 years, Shridhar Chillal (Longest fingernails on a single hand – ever) is finally having them cut,” the video said.

Chillal had asked that the carved nails were immortalized in a museum and Ripley's Belley It or Not Museum in Times Square responded positively. They flew Chillal from Pune to New York to cut their nails and remember them forever in the museum. The museum will host today a "nail clipping ceremony" where Chillal's nails will be cut. It is estimated that the nails have a combined length of 909.6 centimeters (9.1 meters). The longest nail of Chillal is its miniature, measuring 197.8 centimeters. He had decided to grow his nails when he was beaten by his schoolmaster to break the professor's nail. Chillal, 82, has not cut his nails in the left hand since 1952 and has the longest nails in the world. The Guinness World Record Holder is now definitely fired from his nails in a moving farewell.

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