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.

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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 vehicl

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