Lines on a map once meant little to India's Tibetan herders of the high Himalayas, expertly guiding their goats through even the harshest winters to pastures on age-old seasonal routes. That stopped in 2020, after troops from nuclear-armed rivals India and China clashed in bitter hand-to-hand combat in the contested high-altitude border lands of Ladakh. For 57-year-old herder Morup Namgyal, and thousands of others like him, it meant traditional lands were closed off. "The Indian army stops us from going there," Namgyal said, pointing to treeless, ice-streaked peaks. "But this is our land, not China's." IMAGES AND SOUNDBITES ARRANGED IN SEQUENCES