The dark pyramid at the foot of the north face of the 8,167 m Dhaulagiri I was named "Eiger" by European mountaineers in the 1950s, because of the resemblance to its namesake in the Swiss Alps. The Dhaulagiri I/Eiger is about 1,200 m high (compared to the 1,800 m high Eiger North Face in the Alps); its summit is surpassed by Dhaulagiri I by 2,600 m.