The power bomb expansion here can be gotten as soon as you have the ice beam, but in order to get it you'll have to reach the top without the grapple beam. If you're playing a low % game and intend on skipping grapple, it's absolutely necessary to know how to at least reach the plasma door, since the artifact of spirit is also here.
Go to the broken root bridge by the wave door in the middle of the room. Now before the next step, make sure you're standing on the edge of the bridge, on the piece that sticks out the most. You can see it in this picture.
Then you'll want to space jump or l-lock space jump to the tree in the below picture, but don't worry about going too far ahead of the tree.
One of two things can happen now, assuming you jumped far enough. You'll either land perfectly on it or get stuck between the tree and the wall. If you get stuck, it doesn't matter because for some reason Samus will suddenly reappear above the tree and land on it a second later. Either way, once you're on the tree, turn around until your view of the room is like this picture.
At this point, you'll want to walk up the tree until you're near the top of it. If you didn't land on the tree perfectly earlier, something will probably stop you from walking up. This is easy to fix by l-locking the view and moving left very slightly, as in just tapping the stick once. Try walking up again every time you do this, until Samus goes up properly.
When you're near the top, turn around and space jump to the ledge Samus aims at with R in this picture.
If you came here just for the artifact, the rest is done as usual, as you're now at the same ledge you would be after using both grapple points by the root bridge. There's still one more thing to do if you came here for the power bomb expansion. Go to the very top of the room where the glider is. You can l-lock space jump across the gap here to reach the power bomb expansion, but that actually isn't necessary.
Look at the right wall to find two snowy ledges that can be landed on. You only have to jump halfway across if you use these. Space jump on the one Samus is aiming at below, then you can either space jump to the other side or get on the higher snowy ledge first to make it even easier.
Once at the other side, all you have to do is morph and roll through the tunnel to reach the power bomb expansion.
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