Photo Gallery | Man walking across country for St. Jude Children's hospital

Man walking across country for St. Jude Children's hospital

Submitted by Michael Phillips

Wednesday, December 19th, 2012, 10:26am

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Walking for St. Jude

Meet Mario Landeros. He stopped in the Action News 5 studios when he was in Memphis to talk about raising money for St. Jude research.

Walking for St. Jude

This is the cart Mario is using as he walks across the country.

Mario Landeros

is half-way there. He started in California last May.

Landeros arrived in Memphis last week

having walked more than 2,000 miles.

Walking in Arkansas

He began walking across the United States to raise money for St. Jude Children's Research Hospital

Walking in Arkansas

Here's one of the photos he took in Arkansas

Walking in Kansas

He's covered a lot of ground already, and still a ways to go.

It's called operation cheer.

You can see some of the pictures here taken by Mario Landeros.

He is walking across the country to benefit Saint Jude.

He started in California and last week he was in Memphis.

He set to finish his trip by going toward the East Coast.

You can follow his trip and pledge suppport his operation Cheer facebook page here.

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