No, seriously. Children in the village of Pili in the Pamir Mountains have a 120-mile trek to their school, 50 miles of which are by foot or camel. This has to be the world’s most badass kinder-commute: They have to climb up and over a peak, tiptoe along an inches-wide track cut into a cliff, cross four frigid rivers, and take a 600-foot zipline. “Actually, the parents think it toughens the kids up, and gives them good experience,” said Su Qin, the head teacher at the Taxkorgen school. Can we import some of that to America?

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