Mountain Hut Chimney Smoke Under Milky Way

Cold dry air hangs over a quiet alpine saddle near Quito where a solitary mountain hut stands silhouetted against the deep night sky. A faint plume of smoke rises vertically from the dark chimney, dissolving slowly into the starlight. The Milky Way stretches across the horizon in a dense band of white and violet dust, illuminating the rough texture of the hut's thatched roof and stone walls. The foreground reveals dry grass and scattered rocks, their surfaces sharp under the celestial glow. The smoke trails upward, thinning into the vast darkness above, while the starlight reflects faintly off the smooth stone of the chimney base.