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Cameron Mofid
The traveller who has been to every country in the world, and Harry's cabin-mate and foil for ten days in Antarctica — camping on ice for the first time in his life.
Cameron Mofid
An American traveller who has visited every country in the world, and Harry’s companion on the Antarctica expedition. They share a cabin for the crossing, and it is the seventh continent for both of them.
Harry publishes his Instagram in the description.
What he does in the video
- Runs the double act. Most of the comic material in a sixty-minute video is the two of them — the introductions, the transatlantic needling about Britain and America, an unusable karaoke performance, and a running commentary on Harry’s competence.
- Loses to the Drake Passage. Harry took the tablets and was fine and maintains it’s mental; Cameron was ill, took five separate naps in one day, and describes the crossing as unforgiving — it will chew you up and spit you out.
- Camps for the first time in his life, on ice, on the Antarctic Peninsula. He cannot get the sleeping bag back into its sack and is unimpressed by the wind wall Harry built for him.
The useful thing he supplies, beyond the comedy, is the counterweight: a man who has been everywhere on earth, reduced by two days of open ocean, which is Harry’s own argument for why the crossing is the hard part.
Appears in
- A Journey Across the US/Mexico Border into Tijuana 🇺🇸 🇲🇽 — the earliest of the three, at 174 countries, hosting Harry in San Diego and walking him across into Tijuana. He supplies the risk assessment the day is built on: a normal city where you can find trouble if you look for it, and where the risk of petty crime is close to zero — a different category of danger from Afghanistan’s.
- First Tourist in North Korea’s Capital After 5 Years 🇰🇵 — on the same marathon trip to Pyongyang, where he supplies the line that frames the whole first day: having been to every country on earth, he says he has never been more shocked than by how good the city looks. He also breaks a glass in the bar, which ends the evening.
- My First Time in Antarctica (10 Day Expedition) 🇦🇶 — https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dbOpaM25K8k
- All Aboard the Myanmar Dictatorship Express! 🇲🇲 — Myanmar is his 193rd country, and Harry films it as the occasion it is. Laos, straight afterwards, is the 194th and last: at the end of this video he has been to every country in the world. The Antarctica expedition, two years later, is the seventh continent on top of it.
Videos featuring Cameron Mofid
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All Aboard the Myanmar Dictatorship Express! 🇲🇲
A country in civil war seeing twenty tourists a day — a midnight curfew, a black market exchange rate a subscriber saves Harry from, and a three-hour circular railway for thirty cents.
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My First Time in Antarctica (10 Day Expedition) 🇦🇶
Ten days to the seventh continent — three days across the Drake Passage in a storm, a night sleeping on ice with no tent, 9,000 gentoo penguins, and kayaking past sleeping whales.
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A Journey Across the US/Mexico Border into Tijuana 🇺🇸 🇲🇽
Walking across the border from San Diego into the city ranked the most dangerous in the world — pharmacies full of Americans, taxi drivers who give life advice, and a wall with a soldier watching it.
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First Tourist in North Korea’s Capital After 5 Years 🇰🇵
Getting into a country that is still closed, by registering as a marathon runner — then two days of Pyongyang on a guided itinerary, including the metro encounter that the guides visibly stage.