Steve Gardiner - 1954
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I. Biography
Steve Gardiner is an author, climber, and high school English teacher. He was born on April 17, 1954 in Denison, Texas. He grew up in Kansas and Nebraska, graduated from high school in Alliance, Nebraska, and from college in Chadron, Nebraska. He is a high school English teacher. He taught for seven years at Campbell County High School in Gillette, Wyoming, a year at the American School in Lima, Peru, and ten years at Jackson Hole High School in Jackson, Wyoming. He is now in his fifth year at Billings Senior High, Billings, Montana.
He has written two books. Why I climb: Personal Insights of Top Climbers is a book that contains several interviews with world class climbers about why they climb. The other book is Devils Tower National Monument: A Climber's Guide. It is a guidebook for climbing and includes the history of Devils Tower. Devil's Tower is located in the northeast corner of Wyoming, was the first national monument in the United States, and is known as the setting in Close Encounters of a Third Kind .
Gardiner has published over 500 articles in The New York Times, The Denver Post, The Dallas Morning News, Chicago Tribune, The American Alpine Journal, Wyoming Wildlife, High Country News and many others. Besides writing and teaching, he loves climbing as is obvious from his books.
Gardiner has climbed in Alaska, the Alps in Switzerland and Italy, the Andes in Peru, Bolivia, Ecuador, Greenland, and Mount Everest in Asia. He has climbed Devil's Tower over 100 times and made ascents of peaks all over the western United States. He has also made two trips into the Amazon jungle and spent a week in the Galapagos Islands.
II. Contact Gardiner
Gardiner resides in Billings, Montana, and is married with three children. He can be reached by e-mail at
segardiner@rocketmail.com
III. Source Gardiner, Steve. E-mail Interview. January 15, 2000.
This essay was submitted by a student of Judy Iliff, a teacher at Campbell County High School in Gillette, Wyoming.