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A Nanaimo influencer couple, who documented their thrilling off-road adventures on YouTube, died last week in an accident in the Kaslo backcountry.
Stacey Tourout and Matthew Yeomans spearheaded the videos for Toyota World Runners , a channel with more than 200,000 subscribers.
They were off roading in steep terrain in the West Kootenay region last Thursday 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 and the couple 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 at the same time drove to nearby Trout Lake Village and called 911, said Jennings-Bates.
The call was sent to Kaslo Search and Rescue, which attended the crash site.
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.”
On the website, they documented how they fixed Land Cruisers and other vehicles and wrote of their travels across North and South America.
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