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Why does Escamillo come to the smugglers’ mountain camp?

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Publicity photographs from the revival of Georges Bizet's opera Carmen at the Metropolitan Opera, New York City, January 1915. — Carmen Publicity photographs from the revival of Georges Bizet's opera *Carmen* at the Metropolitan Opera, New York City, January 1915.

Escamillo arrives at the smugglers’ mountain camp because he is in love with the gypsy Carmen and has followed her there. His presence is driven by his infatuation, which he describes as the reason for his foolhardy journey into the mountains.1