Romeo Roberto "Romi" Garduce (born 1969 in Balanga, Bataan), sometimes nicknamed as "Garduch," is a Filipino mountaineer, a scuba dive master (since 2000), an environmentalist, writer, motivational speaker and works as an IT professional.
Aside from being a mountain climber and IT professional, he became one of the host for the GMA Network public affair shows Born to Be Wild and Pinoy Meets World.
[1] He also hosted the GMA News and Public Affairs special entitled Pito Para sa Pilipino (Seven for the Filipinos) with Richard Gutierrez.
[3] That record was broken by Leo Oracion on May 17, 2006, when he was the first to reach the peak of Mount Everest, the highest mountain on Earth, and planted the Filipino flag.
[14] The Himalayan Database published by American Alpine Club had included Romi Garduce in the list of Everest South summiters for 2006.
[17][18] After Denali, Romi went on the climb Mount Kosciuszko, Australia in 2009 and Carstensz Pyramid, Indonesia in 2011 with another Filipino, Levi Nayahangan.
[22] Aside from being a mountaineer, Garduce is a scuba diver master, an environmentalist, writer, motivational speaker,[23] an IT professional, and a TV host.
He works at Procter and Gamble (Philippines) as systems manager of the financial reporting unit[24] in the P&G office at Petron Megaplaza, Makati.
[25] In 2006, Garduce became one of the hosts for Pinoy Meets World and, in 2007, he became one of the original presenters for the travel and wildlife show Born to Be Wild with veterinarian Ferdinand Recio.