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A Nanaimo influencer couple, who documented their off-road adventures on YouTube, died last week in an accident in the Kaslo backcountry.
Stacey Tourout and Matthew Yeomans spearheaded videos for Toyota World Runners , a channel with more than 200,000 subscribers. They also had nearly 74,000 followers on Instagram.
On their website, they documented how they fixed up Land Cruisers and other vehicles and wrote of their extensive travels across North and South America.
Last year, they got engaged. But their love story met a tragic end last Thursday while off roading in the mountainous region of the West Kootenay.
They were traversing in steep terrain in what Mark Jennings-Bates, the manager of Kaslo Search and Rescue, described as an expertly modified off-road vehicle.
Jennings-Bates said it’s believed the driver may have lost control. The vehicle rolled 200 metres down a steep embankment.
He said despite the difficult terrain, it is a popular spot for off roading. The occupants of a similar vehicle in the area drove to nearby Trout Lake Village and called 911, said Jennings-Bates.
The call was sent to Kaslo Search and Rescue, which went to the site of the rollover near Silver Cup Ridge in the Purcell mountain range at about 6:30 p.m.
A helicopter aided the ground teams in a search for the vehicle. The search and rescue crew found one person with no vital signs and another person a short distance from the crash site with serious injuries. That person later died in hospital.
Tourout’s mother, Colleen Tourout, posted an announcement of the couple’s fatal accident on Facebook.
“With unimaginable heartache, the families of Matthew Peter Yeomans and Stacey Tourout would like to advise that we lost them both tragically succumbing to injuries in an off-road accident on Aug. 7, 2025, in the beautiful mountains of British Columbia that they loved so much,” the post reads.
“Please keep us and them in your thoughts and prayers as we navigate this devastating end to an amazing love story. They are together forever as we knew they would always be.”
Tourout told Postmedia they lost an amazing couple who loved adventure and lived by their mantra of “choose life.”
On their blog website, the pair says Toyota World Runners began with a truck, “and the two of us making adventure videos and telling stories.”
“What it’s become is a community. We are two adventurous souls that intend to live life to the fullest. And to us that is a radical adventure all over the world,” they wrote. “From humble beginnings, we want to inspire those who can believe in themselves and take action that you can do what you dream. Dreamers can be do-ers, too.”
In a heartfelt social media post announcing their engagement last year, Yeomans said he knew right away he wanted to be with her forever.
“After our first date, I knew I could spend my life with this girl. Driving the length of the Americas in a rig that we built has made us into a remarkable team,” he wrote.
They were on the road and he’d left the ring in Canada so he drew one on her finger with a Sharpie, figuring it would be a good story to tell their future children.
Tributes poured in on social media for the pair this week, with dozens of posts describing them as an extraordinary couple who inspired thousands. Many wrote that their deaths are a major loss in the off-roading and 4×4 enthusiast communities.