The Big Yin has revealed "the best time of his life" was spent in Partick Library as a schoolboy.
Sir Billy Connolly became besotted with remote places such as Tibet by reading about them in the Glasgow library.
The comedian said he has a burning desire to travel to the remote area hinting at ideas for a television series of him walking across Tibet.
The 77-year-old, who suffers from Parkinson's disease, joked a walk across the area would be more of a stagger due to his health and advancing years.
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Connolly revealed the desire to Janice Forsyth on the podcast Great Scot.
"I wanted to go to Tibet and I started reading everything I could get on it," he told Janice.
He added: “I would like to go to Tibet.
"I met a man once in Nepal called Charlie Ramble, I met him in the British Embassy, and he did walking tours from Nepal to Tibet.
“I have always wanted to do it. I don’t know if I could do it now, I don’t know if I have the energy but I would like to do that and film it.
“We could have a wee donner in the Himalayas.”
Conolly has previously starred in travel documentaries around Australia, America and Canada.
He also talked about the three murals painted in his honour across Glasgow calling it "breathtaking".
"I don't know what to about it, or what it feel about it. It has just overwhelmed me," he added.
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