A pregnant Santa Barbara woman plummeted to her death while hiking in Greece over the holidays. Clara Thomann, 33, fell about 164 feet down a gorge on the Greek island of Crete on Dec. 23, according to a report by the Greek Reporter.

Thomann, who was six months pregnant, was pronounced dead just before the New Year after suffering multiple fractures to her chest and skull that rendered her brain dead.

By all accounts, Clara Thomann was the high school teacher you wanted: young, vibrant, outdoorsy, real and, most of all, the kind that could take the difficult-to-parse world of physics and make it fun.