KASLO, British Columbia — Stacey Tourout and Matthew Yeomans, the Nanaimo, British Columbia, couple behind the “Toyota World Runners” YouTube travel channel, died Thursday after their vehicle rolled on a remote mountain route in the West Kootenay region, People reported.
Kaslo Search and Rescue crews were dispatched around 6:30 p.m. to a rugged service road near Trout Lake. One person was found without vital signs at the scene, while the other later died at a hospital, according to Nanaimo News Bulletin. It’s unclear who died at the scene and who died at a hospital.
Tourout and Yeomans built an online following by chronicling overland expeditions across the Americas, blending how-to vehicle content with long-haul travel stories for hundreds of thousands of subscribers and followers, People reported.
“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 offroad accident on Aug. 7, 2025 in the beautiful mountains of British Columbia that they loved so much,” Stacey’s mom Colleen Tourout wrote on Facebook Monday. “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.”
According to People, the pair had recently shared updates from coastal British Columbia and were known for ambitious itineraries that once took them through 17 countries in 17 months in a mini-RV.
“Toyota World Runners” documented the couple’s journeys across North and South America, driving heavily modified Toyota vehicles, and sharing a mix of travel vlogs, vehicle build tips and off-road adventure stories.
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