walkthrough I have isn't so great. It says:

>>Trial-Ice Palace
1) Take the Glyph Sphere from the center pillar.
2) Now put the Sphere in the pedestal and push it rightwards. After that
push it upwards to the back wall. This will cause it to slid
down a slide to a lower cavern.
3) Take the Sphere on the rightmost wall on the upper level. Now take it
to the lower area and and put it on the leftmost wall. A small section
will rise.
4) Now go up and and take the Macalania Sphere from the new rised section.
And put it in the middles Pillar.
5) Go back down and push the pliiar to the right. Now a second section of the
walkway is completed.
6) Take the Sphere from the leftmost wall and put it in the pillar near you.

When I attempt #3, nothing happens (insert sphere into lower area "leftmost wall"). It's not helping my sanity that there IS NO LEFT wall...it's just an ice cliff. There are 3 sphere-shaped recesses--two of them are on the north wall, and one of them is on a column. OK, there are two more (the one that's out of reach on the left side of the north wall, and the pedestal holding the glyph sphere).

How do I get the "section to rise" as mentioned in step #3?

Thanks

Perhaps by following the instruction in the sentence immediately before it...

no, that's not the problem. What I learned is that the GLYPH sphere must be used to raise the section.

I was able to solve the puzzle enough to escape, but the walkthrough is completely wrong, and sadly short of what appears to be the complete puzzle. It is possible to obtain a destruction sphere if you do things differently, but I was unable to make use of it.