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There 's even a new way to ski , with a kite and a bunch of rope . Ward , an experienced mountaineer who had climbed Hood before , worked at the Hines Nursery branch in Forest Grove , Oregon , which Slutter often visited on business . Ward 's friend Rick Read , from Forest Grove , was the only novice in the group . Ahead was a large metal tower , like the kind you build with an Erector set , topped with a solar-powered blinking light . But two four-engine airplanes , each carrying a flight crew and several scientists , now head toward the storm . A generation before , Darius 's father-in-law , Cyrus the Great , founded the Persian Empire — the largest kingdom the world had ever known , spanning from Libya to India .