He was also member of Board of Studies, West Bengal Council of Higher Secondary Education during 1973–1977 as a representative of Pali.

He and his friend Gouranga Banerjee, working as in charge of reading section in Anandabazar Patrika started from Kolkata in October of the same year.

Mukhopadhyay took part in the expedition, the first by a non-government group in India, along with Sailesh Chakrabarty and Sukumar Ray.

Mukhopadhyay was one of the main organizers of the famous Nanda Ghunti Expedition, the first successful climb to the pick ever.

Other team members were Dilip Banerjee, Nemai Bose, Dhruba Majumder, Bishwadeb, Pemba Norbu, Nima Tashi and others.

Swami Pranavanand wrote an article named "Mysterious lake of Roopkund" on The Illustrated Weekly of India in 1962.

Swami mentioned his finding of more than five hundred dead bodies at north western side of Roopkund lake.

Sukumar Ray formed a new organisation named "Hikers Club Bengal" with Anima Banerjee as president.

Mukhopadhyay and the other members of the club were inspired by the article and wrote a letter to Swami mentioning their planned expedition.

[2] A team of eight led by Sukumar Ray reached the ashram of Swami at Garur belongs to present Uttarakhand.

They faced a problem related to remuneration of the high altitude porters in a village called Pathar Nachuni on the way.

Secretary of Himalayan Association Chanchal Kumar Mitra requested Mukhopadhyay to join the team as chief patron and advisor.

Other notable members were Manik Banerjee, Marcopolo Srimal, Dr. Amitabha Sen (medical officer).

During his exploration of Himalaya Mukhopadhyay felt the necessity of organizing scientific expeditions with scholars from different academic fields to conduct studies on mostly unexplored high altitude Himalayan region.

Being first of its kind in India, the organisation was established to promote mountaineering based scientific explorations, publication of research papers etc.

Later joined Tridib Bose (Geography, National Atlas Organisation), Kamal Banerjee (Lecturer, Department of Zoology, Presidency College, Kolkata), Prabal Dey (Zoological Survey of India), Dr. Gour Gopal Maiti (Lecturer, Department of Botany, Kalyani University), Mukul Hajra (Anthropological Survey of India).

[5][6] The initial scheme was rejected by Indian Mountaineering Foundation mentioning that it was out of their scope to grant money for such a scientific exploration.

Special permission was taken from the Indian military base located there as the peak was very close to the India-Tibet border.

A six-week-long expedition for climbing the peak was organised by Council of Himalayan Exploration and Research under the leadership of Pradip Dasgupta.

The purpose of the expedition was to conduct a survey on socio religious life of the indigenous people with special reference to Buddhist culture.

Monasteries including Tabo, Kee and Dankhar were visited and the culture and lifestyle of Buddhist were studied in detail.

The potential of Kuti valley in terms of research work on various branches of science inspired the council to conduct the second scientific expedition in the region.

[10] The team led by Dilip Kumar Dutta started from Kolkata on 3 October and reached Tawaghat in Pithoragarh district, the final point by bus, on 10th.

Zoologists Probal Dey and Kamal Banerjee collected some reptiles including a poisonous snake, butterflies, parasites etc.

Mukhopadhyay and Sukumar Ray surveyed Ajodhya Hills, Purulia to find out possibilities of rock climbing course in 1961.

Council of Himalayan Exploration and Research later organised rock climbing courses in their training programs for new aspiring mountaineers.