A couple who ran a popular off-roading YouTube channel are dead after they crashed in British Columbia’s Purcell Mountains. Matthew Yeomans and Stacey Tourout were found by search crews after 911 was called from a service road on Thursday.
Their YouTube channel, Toyota World Runners, has 206,000 subscribers, and followed the couple in their overland adventures all over the world in an overlanding rig they built themselves, from British Columbia to New Zealand, Brazil, and the Pan-American Highway, a network of roads stretching from Alaska to Argentina.
“Please keep us and them in your thoughts and prayers as we navigate this devastating end to an amazing love story,” Colleen Tourout, Stacey’s mother wrote. “They are together forever as we knew they would always be.”
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According to reports, their vehicle was found by Kaslo Search and Rescue, which works out of a tiny town near Nelson, B.C. It was nearly 700 feet down a steep slope. Yeomans was deceased when the search crews found them.
“It was very clear that there had been a vehicle rollover,” said search manager Mark Jennings-Bates. “There was an ejection, and that person had no vital signs.”
Tuorout was alive when search crews reached her, but she died after a helicopter airlifted her from the scene. The news has hit the off-roading community hard, and condolences are flooding in.
“Matt and Stacy were fun loving adventure seekers with bright futures,” wrote Dirt Lifestyle, another off-roading YouTube channel, in the description for a memorial video you can see below. “Let’s celebrate their lives and remember their legacy the way they would have wanted. I was lucky to have known such great people!”
