Right I think I know exactly where he's talking about now. It is definitely a glitch, one I was warned about when looking up the item trick during the team split up.
It's the first meet up point before they decide to split up into three teams. It says if you put the save point in that room (there's an icicle looking part to climb up if you want to leave) while the team are still there, you wont be able to get out.
What I did on my latest PC save was split up, go to last area where the team meet up to give Cloud all the items they found, but don't actually go much further than the doorway, turned back and retraced my steps. Once back I put the save point down and checked to see if everything was glitch free. I could climb out, go into the menu, jump etc.. so if you wait until everyone's split up or until after the item exchange before the save point down it's ok.
I know this probably isn't any help, but at least I know what's going on now (me slow..lol), I hope you have a previous save to go back to. I mucked up the last time by placing my save point right at the doorway to the area with all the Magic Pots and everything are. What happened is that I ended up jumping down right after, and was unable to climb back up or jump/climb anywhere else.. people who know the room know it's impossible to get out when that happens. Also I couldn't get into the menu.
I'm stuck with that glitch but I know how to get passed it if anyone's interested: before you go into that area, hold O/X whatever you use to run as you walk into it. Don't let go. Cloud will run into the room, passed the save point and jump immediately down. I don't know why it fixes it, but it does. My save point greets me as soon as I enter the room, that's probably what mucks it up. That northern crater is extremely glitchy :S Did they rush the third disc or something?
edit - suggestion: I know it's a daft suggestion as you may have already tried it, but my glitch is fixed by leaving and entering areas while running. When you load the game you're on the save point, which may muck it up like when I enter that other area I'm glitched in. Have you tried running out of the room, and re-entering while avoiding the save point?
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