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  The road to the Karakoram is deliberately hard. A flight to Islamabad, a smaller plane into Skardu, a ten-hour drive over crumbling roads — and then a full week on foot, 120 kilometres across the Baltoro Glacier, before the peaks that pull climbers toward them even come into view. When Neža Peterca, founder of the design studio What Happened, reached base camp, she had crossed two continents and two time zones, and joined a nine-person team documenting Leila Peak and Gasherbrum I for a memorial project.   She was the only woman among roughly forty men — a number that included thirty-seven local porters who carried the expedition's entire load on their own backs, in plastic shoes without socks, eating snow for thirst. That detail matters to anyone in the luggage and...