The primary portion of the Douglas Glacier was a debris covered valley tongue that is separated from the slopes feeding the terminus reach. The feeder glacier tongues, pink arrows, end on the bedrock slopes above a steep cliff and do not reach the valley glacier below, blue arrows. One section of the glacier, the furthest west portion noted by a pink arrow, the Douglas Neve flows down a steep mountains side. The bedrock slope at the base of the glacier is particularly smooth, which combined with the steep slope,, 40% grade or 22 degree slope, enhances basal sliding. On small alpine glacier the resulting high velocity leads to extensive crevassing. This crevassing can literally penetrate to the base of the glacier near the thin terminus. This leads to portions of the glacier simply separating from the rest of the glacier and avalanching down the slope or melting in place. Here we utilize Landsat images from 2000 and 2012 and Google Earth imagery from 2004 and 2009 to examine the retreat of this glacier. The sequence of images below are in order 2000, 2004, 2009 and 2012. In 2000 the terminus of the glacier terminates at a prominent bedrock fracture at 1640 meters above sea level. In 2004 the terminus still reaches this fracture. The green line in the Google Earth imagery is the 2004 terminus and the burgundy line the 2009 terminus. By 2009 the terminus has retreated 400 meters, and consists of two unsustainable narrow tongues, both less than 100 meterw side. By 2012 the two narrow tongues have been lost, resulting in a 700 m retreat from 2000 to 2012 with the terminus now at 1800 meters. As the retreat of an alpine glacier progresses crevassing typically is reduced as glacier speed declines. Here we see an increase in crevassing from 2004 above to 2009 below in the terminus area, suggesting that the retreat will continue via pieces of the glacier separating from the glacier and avalanching. This process is a much different setting, but similar in practice to ice shelf loss through rifting that reaches the critical point where the rifts lead to icebergs breaking off. At this point the terminus remains unsustainable. This retreat is similar to that of New Zealand glaciers in general as noted by the NIWA and Trevor Chinn, and examined in detail on Murchison Glacier, Mueller Glacier and Gunn Glacier