He was operated on for a dislocated hip-joint and had to spend two years walking on crutches, but that did not keep him out for too long and he has climbed for three decades after the injury.

His book, Meeting The Mountains[10] can be seen while standing in the queue at Disney's Animal Kingdom for Expedition Everest.

[12] Due his long work as editor of the Himalayan Journal, Kapadia became an important chronicler of mountaineering.

[13] Kapadia has a degree in commerce, law and management from University of Mumbai and is a cloth merchant by profession.

His son, Lieutenant Nawang Kapadia, who was commissioned on 2 September 2000 in the Fourth Battalion the Third Gorkha Rifles,[14] died while fighting Pakistan-based terrorists in the jungles of Rajwar in the Kupwara district of Srinagar on 11 November 2000.

He has been discussing a proposal for a peace park in the Siachen glacier region and cleaning up the environmental damage there.

He has also donated a substantial number of photographs and maps to the American Alpine Club[25] and to the Swiss National Museum, which are setting up the Lt. Nawang Kapadia Collection.