So I was on my way to the beach to regroup with the others and noticed a box in shanty that I forgot. I went down and got it then did the tomb and collected everything I could. For a while I thought I was stuck down there till I finally found a way out using fast travel to a different area of shanty town. When I got back to where the lift should be to go down the mountain side there seemed to no longer be one. Dx I'm not sure what to do.. I kinda don't want to revert to a previous save but I also don't want to be stuck forever =[

What happens when you try to fast travel back to Shipwreck Beach?

EDIT: Oh, I think I understand what you're saying now. You didn't use fast travel to get back to Shanytown, you dropped down from the gondola platform. In that case, I think you are going to have to revert to an older save. If you're playing on the PC, I have a collection of saves for each level that you can download here: http://tombraiders.net/stella/savegame/TR9saves.html.

I ended up fast traveling back to the hunting lodge and everything went back to normal. Thanks for the advice though =]