A POPULAR travel influencer couple who shared their van adventures online have died in a horror off-road crash.

Stacey Tourout and Matthew Yeomans lost control driving through rough terrain in the mountains near Trout Lake in British Colombia, Canada, rescuers believe.

Stacey and Matthew, from Canada, ran the Toyota World Runners YouTube channel, with more than 200,000 subscribers, and had amassed 72,000 followers on Instagram.

News of their deaths was shared on social media by friends and family and confirmed by Kaslo Search and Rescue, who responded to the scene.

Mark Jennings-Bates, a manager with Kaslo SAR, said rescuers were called to an offroad motor vehicle incident around 7:30pm local time on August 7.

He said: “So it was on a forestry road, somewhere in the mountains, and quite a long ways north in the valley up towards […] the village of Trout Lake.

“Our teams were able to get to them efficiently. It’s a long journey, but they got there efficiently. So that was very, very helpful.

“And of course that means that the helicopter pilot could also fly straight to the destination with confidence that he was going to find them.”

Jennings-Bates said that one of the occupants was dead when they arrived, while the other was rushed to hospital where they later died.

He said the exact cause of the crash wasn’t clear, though the running theory is a loss of control on rough terrain.

It also isn’t known whether the couple had been filming at the time.

Viewers loved watching their explorations across North and South America – and their journey to building the “world’s first Land Cruiser Chinook in 100 days,” according to the YouTube bio.

The custom vehicle combines the body of a Toyota Chinook camper and a Toyota Land Cruiser to create an off-road camper van.

It’s not clear whether they were riding in the Toyota Chinook when they died.

Mark Jennings-Bates urged anyone planning a trip into the mountains to be prepared for the event of an accident, particularly as rescuers may need extra time to get there.