the ridge north from brim fell narrows to the depression at levers hawse (2,250 ft) before climbing again over the rougher ground of great how crags to the summit of swirl how. to the south, trending south east across a broad plateau is the old man of coniston, the reascent being negligible. halfway between brim fell and 'the old man' a further ridge branches off due west, dropping steeply to goat's hawse (2,130 ft), before swinging south around goat's water to dow crag.