By Sean Moriarty

Demand to see a documentary on Killarney ice racer Kevin Leahy’s exploits in the Arctic has forced Wander Wild festival organisers to add a second date.

'1000km of Chaos' charts the Killarney hostel owner's adventure races above the arctic circle this time last year.

The feature length movie will be shown at 8.45pm on Friday, March 24 and at 3pm on Saturday 25 in St Mary’s Church of Ireland in Kenmare Place as part of the Wander Wild Festival which is taking place in Killarney next weekend.

The two showings of the new film will raise money for two charities – Kerry Mountain Rescue Team and As I Am, the national Autism charity.

“The Mountain rescue team are always out on the mountains saving peoples' lives. They are building a new facility and will need all the funding they can get,” Kevin told the Killarney Advertiser.

“The [Wander Wild] festival is Autism friendly and this is just another way of raising awareness. We all have someone with Autism in our lives.”

Last March Kevin completed the 500km Lapland Arctic Ultra in Sweden after five and half days in the frozen wilderness.

A few weeks previous he finished the 500km Yukon Ultra in Canada.

Alongside him for both journeys was local filmmaker and director Adrian McCarthy of Grandview Media whose production company has edited footage from both races and Kevin’s preparations over the last two years. This has now been turned into a feature length 90-minute movie.

Tickets are available via wanderwildfestival.com/bookings and cost €10.