Kathmandu, November 9

As part of his Run the World Challenge, Dan Thompson, a British national, is all set to run 10 kilometres in Kathmandu on Wednesday.

Run the World is an extraordinary challenge that has been created by Dan, a British businessman and sports enthusiast, who has undertaken to run 10km in every country in a total of 206 countries, according to the British Embassy in Kathmandu.

Dan is doing the challenge to promote the benefits of sport and physical activity and to raise money for cancer research following the recent death of his mother from cancer, the British mission added.

Dan has previously run in 60 countries in Africa, South-East Asia, South America, Europe, the Caribbean and the Middle East.

The embassy stated that Dan is also talking to interested parties all over the world for the same.