How kaladin could have saved all the bridgemen

[king of nowhere]

I am rereading way of kings in preparation for oathbringer, and I just reached the point where kaladin discovers he can breath stormlight, and he made the armor with parshendi carapace and attached it to the bridge while climbing a chasm by sticking rocks to walls.

And I just figured, it would have been the perfect escape setup.

So far, they could not escape the chasms because the ones at the east would be too far, and the ones at the west would be either too close to the warcamps or too high to escape. But with kaladin capable of climbing walls, all they'd need to do would be to walk a few hours until they would be out of sight of the warcamps, then kaladin climbs the wall with stormlight, he drops a rope, lets all the bridgemen out of the chasm. then he goes back into the chasm and into sadeas' warcamp, and explains that they were attacked by a chasmfiend and he was the only survivor. he would likely be put with another bridge crew, and he could repeat the trick at the first chasm duty. Of course after he remains the only survivor three or four times in a row someone is going to suspect something is amiss, but it would have been a great way to smuggle out some bridge crews without arising any suspicion

[Toaster Retribution he/him]

Was he able to walk on walls in WoK? Didn't he start to master that in WoR?

[king of nowhere]

3 minutes ago, Toaster Retribution said:

Was he able to walk on walls in WoK? Didn't he start to master that in WoR?

I specificallly referred to the scene where he used stormlight to stick stones to the cliff wall to get handholds. he couldn't walk on walls, but he could climb them easily enough

[WhiteLeeopard she/her]

Good idea. But I think their biggest problems for escaping were taking the injured and no supplies once they left. Mainly the first.

That scene was a good reminder that he began with Adhesion.

Edited September 10, 2017 by WhiteLeeopard

[EmmaExtraordinary]

I don't think it would have worked because there are no bridges to cross the chasms. After Kaladin left the bridge crews would be stuck in the shattered planes with no supplies or way to travel. 

[StormblessDave]

Good theory, the major danger they'd be, would be of chamsfiends and flooding during highstorms while going through the chasms.

[king of nowhere]

9 hours ago, EmmaExtraordinary said:

I don't think it would have worked because there are no bridges to cross the chasms. After Kaladin left the bridge crews would be stuck in the shattered planes with no supplies or way to travel. 

I said to let them out of the plains, just not in sight of the warcamps. the only problem with that was that cliff walls could not be scaled