Standing at CHECKPOINT 15 with the cave wall on Lara's right, you can see a metal ring on the underside of the ledge jutting out from the wall ahead. Take a running jump off the column and grapple that ring.
Adjust the length of the cable if necessary so Lara is hanging a few feet above the lava (as shown above).
Swing back and forth on the cable and take a look ahead. Adjust Lara's angle left to right so she's swinging toward the top of the ramp ahead. Then, when you swing forward and jump, Lara will land on the top of the ramp, and you'll be able to slide for a second before jumping to grab the horizontal metal bar ahead. If Lara lands near the bottom of the slope, you won't have time to react and she'll slide off into the lava.
When Lara grabs the metal bar, it swings around to the left so Lara is facing away from the artifact.
Turn around to face the ledge with the goodies, swing around the bar and jump to the ledge ahead. Grab ARTIFACT #3 and a small medipack.
ALTERNATELY, TRY THIS SHORTCUT:
While hanging from the metal ring, lengthen the grapple cable so Lara is hanging just above the surface of the lava, get a very long swing going and then jump past the slope to land on the I-beam that juts up out of the lava beyond the ramp. From there, jump to perch on the next iron beam, just ahead on the left, and from there, jump to the ledge with the artifact, as shown in the screenshot above. I had initially suggested this in the main walkthrough, but a lot of players had trouble with it, so I replaced it with the slightly easier method above.
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