He participated in the Norwegian-British-Swedish Antarctic Expedition polar expedition to the Antarctic 1949–52.
He also participated in important expeditions to Canada in 1954, to Greenland in 1954, to Spitsbergen in 1956, 1957, 1958 and Deception Island in 1977. Schytt is mainly associated with the Ymer-80 expedition carried out by the icebreaker Ymer during the summer of 1980.[4][5]
Schytt initiated the glacier mass balance studies at Storglaciären in the Tarfala Valley. Started in 1945/46, it is the longest continuous study of this type in the world. He was promoting the Tarfala research station since its start. He died at the research station during a winter visit in March 1985.
Awards and Recognitions
For his outstanding work on the Ymer-80 Expedition, Valter Schytt was awarded the Vega Medal, the highest award of the Swedish Society for Anthropology and Geography, in 1981.[2] Also in 1981, Valter was awarded the Patron's Medal from the Royal Geographical Society.[6]
^Schytt, Valter (1983). "YMER-80: A Swedish Expedition to the Arctic Ocean". The Geographical Journal. 149 (1): 22–28. doi:10.2307/633339. JSTOR633339.