Alasdair Roberts has worked extensively in Gaelic education, history and research. He studied history at Edinburgh University and was a lecturer in teacher training at the Northern College in Aberdeen. Now retired, he lives beside Loch Morar.

M.E.M. Donaldson is one of the best known and most evocative photographers of the West Coast of Scotland, and was particularly associated with Moidart and Morar in the 1920s.