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Man walking on stilts from Grand Haven to Lansing
Posted: 09.06.2012 at 6:19 PM
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ADA (AP) -- A record-setting stilt walker has started a 100-mile trip to Michigan's capital to raise money for cerebral palsy programs.

Neil Sauter set out from Grand Haven on Tuesday and reached Ada on Wednesday on his way to Lansing.

Sauter holds the world's record for the fastest marathon on stilts, finishing a 2008 race in 6 hours, 32 minutes. He's also completed an 830 mile walk from Lambertville in southeastern Michigan to Ironwood at the western end of the Upper Peninsula.

Sauter says he has a mild case of cerebral palsy.

The Lansing State Journal says he started the walk on World Cerebral Palsy Day and says he's donating money his trip is raising to United Cerebral Palsy of Michigan to help people with disabilities live independently.

(Copyright ©2012 by The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved.)

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