Peter Biggar was brought up in Edinburgh. He studied English and Philosophy at St.Andrews and did a Ph.D in Philosophy at Aberdeen. He taught English in Liverpool for several years before returning to the Highlands where the family had owned a house since 1976. He has been walking and climbing in Scotland summer and winter, for over 50 years. In 2003 he won the WH Murray prize for a short story entitled The Second Sight. In 2013 he published a collection of short stories The Pike Fishers and Other Tales on Amazon. He edited the Scottish Mountaineering Club Journal from 2014–2020 and in 2024 Scottish Mountain Press published his biography Harold Raeburn: The Steps of a Giant. He has been writing poetry for many years but only recently started to publish it.