It's also a question of length though. If you go down 292 m and then back up over 14.4 km, that is a 4% slope on average. But to go down 250 m and then back up over 3.3 km, it requires a 15% average slope.
It's also a question of length though. If you go down 292 m and then back up over 14.4 km, that is a 4% slope on average. But to go down 250 m and then back up over 3.3 km, it requires a 15% average slope.
I mean both Sicily and mainland Italy have more than 7km of land on either side to ascend into.