Wetzel's Climbing Mouse is a small rodent recorded at a few sites around Venezuela's tepuis. In Venezuelan cloud forest, it has also been trapped on logs above the ground.
The account describes it as very small within its genus, with a somewhat longer tail than the related Rhipidomys caucensis.
Specimens were recorded at 1,032–1,850 m. In Bolívar State, many were trapped on logs above the ground in cloud forest.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.