Outdoor Boys' Luke NIchols comes out of Youtube retirement to support friend

Outdoor Boys' Luke Nichols has come out of retirement to support a friend and fellow YouTuber who's wife is battling thyroid cancer.

Nichols retired from YouTube earlier this year due to burnout caused by his workload and the rapid growth of his channel after he amassed 18 million subscribers.

He explained that creating content featuring wilderness-camping, fishing, and survival videos was too tedious for him and his family, and these issues excacerbated by invasions of privacy led him step back from Youtube.

Now, months later, Nichols has announced the revival of his content to support his friend Steven and his four kids, during their time of need.

He wrote on Instagram, "Some of you may know that Steven with the MyLifeOutdoors YouTube channel is helping his wife battle cancer while also raising four kids and running a YouTube channel.

"That's a lot to deal with, so I made a video for him to have and post exclusively on his channel so that he didn't have to worry about making a video over the holidays."

In the new video Nichols goes to Alaska to spend a night in a snowstorm without a tent or sleeping bag.

"Racing against the early Arctic sunset, he builds a fire-heated shelter from scratch, gathers enough wood for a 17-hour night, cooks moose stew over the flames, and even squeezes in a bit of gear talk along the way," states the description.

It comes after Steven revealed o      n his page last month that his wife had been diagnosed with thyroid cancer earlier in the year.

“The lump turned out to be a completely different type of breast cancer. Triple negative breast cancer, which as far as I understand is the worst type of breast cancer that you can be diagnosed with,” he said.