As Fisherplace Gill they descend a further thousand feet to the valley, and originally turned north to join St John's Beck.

[2] The becks flowing from either side of the pass summit are both officially named Sticks Gill, the '(East)' and '(West)' having been added by Alfred Wainwright in his Pictorial Guide to the Lakeland Fells and utilised by later guidebook writers.

The eastern face of this ridge is gouged deeply by Kepple Cove, a corrie whose back wall is named Red Screes.

[3] It continued in use until the night of 29 October 1927 when the Kepple Cove dam burst during a heavy storm, leaving an 80 ft (24 m) wide gap in the earthworks.

Prominently marked 'chimney' on Ordnance Survey maps, the flue ran over half a mile up the fellside to a stone chimney at about 2,250 ft (690 m).

Stang now carries the marks of a more modern industry, with the Lake District's only permanent ski-tow installed on the northern slope.

Geologically, the summit of Raise is part of the Birker Fell Formation of plagioclase-phyric andesite lava, with pyroclastic breccia to the south west.

[5] Alone among the northern Helvellyns, Raise has a summit area of outcropping rock, an island amid the sea of grass.

From the east there is a path rising directly up the Stang ridge and a further old route zig-zags up from Glenridding Beck beside Kepple Cove.