Kuru-Utumpala teamed up with Johann Peries in 2011 and has worked with him in several successful expeditions, including summitting Adam's Peak, Island Peak in 2012, Mount Kilimanjaro in 2014, and her historic summit of Mount Everest in 2016. She also completed expeditions such as Paarl Rocks in Stellenbosch, Arneles Mendoza in Argentina, the Pyrenees in Spain, and Ben Nevis in Scotland. In February 2019, Kuru-Utumpala and Peries officially signed as brand ambassadors of the Hatton National Bank. In June 2020, she was named as one of the members of the Presidential task force appointed by the President Gotabaya Rajapaksa as a response to tackle the COVID-19 pandemic in Sri Lanka.