Ljubljana  - Rescuers were trying to locate a seriously injured Slovenian climber stranded in poor weather on a Himalayan mountain, Slovenian newspapers said Friday.

Tomaz Humar, 41, fell somewhere around 6,300 during a solo ascent on the north face of Langtang Lirung in Nepal. In a single radio call on Tuesday, he said his leg and his spine were broken.

A Swiss mountain rescue team has reached Nepal meanwhile, but was unable to lift off in a helicopter on Friday morning due to a low cloud ceiling, the 24Ur news portal said.

Sherpa climbers were so far unable to pinpoint Humar's exact location on the mountain, reports said. Rescuers planned to search for him in the helicopter equipped with a sling.

The Slovenian alpinist miraculously escaped death in Himalayas four years ago, when he was rescued by the Pakistani army after remaining stranded for six days at 6,000 metres.

On his internet site (www. humar. com) he marked the date of that rescue as his "other birthday."  (dpa)