CCP Reaches New Heights. By Climbing a Mountain. For Real.

You know how I said that I didn’t want to report gaming news on this blog, despite the fact that it is what I mostly want to write about? Yeah. Screw that. Why keep a blog (blarg)  if I’m not writing about what I enjoy?

CCP Stakes Claim to a Kilimanjaro

CCP developers Solomon, Diagoras, and Punkturis were also not willing to let themselves be kept down. Just they were looking to fight back against gravity by climbing to the peak of Mount Kilimanjaro, which is the highest point in the African continent. Frankly, anyone who climbs a mountain with a name that sounds like “Kill-a-man” deserves an awful lot of props.

This is, honestly, quite a feat. That is even more true more so considering that most game developers I know won’t even go out to parties during GDC much less scale a mountain. Still, there are always those occasional few that break the mold and show the world that us geeks can be out-going and althetic (even if it isn’t most of us) by practicing aviation, playing rugby, climbing a mountain, or even going (back?) into space. CCP themselves seem like a fairly adventurous company at that. While out at the Game Developers Conference this year, I noticed they had a photo album on one of their tables that showed off one of CCP’s company trips. The destination? Morocco.

That and free beer. I checked that out, too.