The California science teacher fell 164 feet into a gorge while hiking on a Grecian island of Crete last December.

Pregnant California teacher plunges 164 feet to her death after horror fall in Greece - Clara Thomann, 33 slipped and fell hiking near the Preveli Monastery in Crete while on holiday with her partner

Clara Thomann from California, had been hiking in Greece with her partner Elliott Finn when tragedy struck the couple, with the Dos Pueblos High School teacher falling 50 metres down a gorge

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.

A schoolteacher from Santa Barbara County who was six months pregnant fell to her death while hiking on the Greek island of Crete late last month, according to multiple reports. The tragic incident occurred on Dec.

Clara Thomann, 33, from Santa Barbara, Calif., slipped and fell 164 feet down a gorge in Preveli on the Greek island of Crete on the afternoon of Dec. 23 and was declared brain-dead on Dec. 29, per SFGate and local outlets Greek Reporter and Nea Kriti.