In recent years, rumours have swirled about who could play the next James Bond, with Elderslie-born actor Richard Madden's name often popping up as a possibility.
The prospect has plenty of Glaswegians giddy with excitement at the possibility of seeing a former Glasgow drama student take on the iconic role.
In the meantime however, at least we can say that Glasgow has already borne witness to a real-life action hero who carried out a number of incredible and daring exploits that in some respects read like something you might see 007 do on the big screen.
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The name William W. Naismith might not ring a bell with many Glaswegians, but to those of us who enjoy taking to the majestic hills around Scotland when we get the chance, his name will no doubt be one they are familiar with.
Naismith was one of the key founders of the Scottish Mountaineering Club - the second oldest in the country - back in the late 19th century, and also came up with 'Naismith's rule', which hillwalkers use (even today) to calculate the time needed to walk a specific route.
Born in Hamilton in 1856, he attended the University of Glasgow to study accounting. But thanks to his parents, his passion lay in the great outdoors, with Naismith ticking Ben Lomond off his list of hill climbs before the age of 10.
According to The Scottish Mountaineering Club, it seems that travelling by car or bus to go walk a hill were foreign thoughts in his mind, with the super-active Naismith walking from Glasgow to the summit of Ben Lomond and back - a distance of over 60 miles - in in 20 hours, at the age of 60. He also walked to the top of Tinto Hill from Hamilton and back - a distance of 56 miles - aged 23.
Even Ben Nevis didn't escape his capacity for risk-taking exploits, with Naismith becoming the very first person to make a winter ascent of the North-East Buttress - a route which is graded 'a very difficult rock climb' and one normally avoided in poor conditions.
Equally impressive were his feats involving skiing and ice-skating. Naismith was the very first person to be recorded taking to skis in Scotland - doing so using wooden planks a few miles to the north of Glasgow on the Campsie Fells back in March of 1892.
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The story goes that, having reached the top of the Meikle Bin peak (570m), Naismith then descended on his rudimentary skis standing up before resorting to toboggan down parts of his route down on the steepest sections.
As if skiing down the Campsie Fells wasn't daring enough, Naismith, who also a member of the Scottish Ski Club, also became the first person to ice-skate on a frozen Loch Lomond back in 1895.
Having conquered the area around Glasgow on foot, Naismith also took to the skies for a balloon ascent over the city in 1901, reaching a height of 5,350 feet while doing so - double the height of the world's tallest building, the The Burj Khalifa in Dubai.
What an adventure-filled and impressive life Naismith had!
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