Christina Noble was born and brought up in Ardkinglas, Cairndow. After gaining a degree in English Literature, she moved to the Indian Himalayas, where she lived from 1970 to 1990. She ran a Himalayan trekking company and wrote about her life in India in two books, Over the High Passes (1987) and At Home in the Himalayas (1991). After leaving India she returned to Cairndow, where she now lives. She is Project Director of Here We Are, a project which aims to sustain the local community and enable it to prosper in the modern world.