This was taken in South Africa on a very dark and moonless night. The extreme length of the exposure has made streaks out of the stars. The extremely dim light on the mountain looks very bright which is also because of the extremely long exposure.
The key obstacles to a shot like this are having the camera stationary (a solid tripod is essential) and timing the exposure. Very few cameras will time extremely long exposures like this so you may be left hanging out with a cable release and a stopwatch. A few older cameras like the Nikon FE will time such exposures automatically. Generally, what you will need is a camera new enough to have automatic exposure but old enough that the circuitry is analogue not digital. Even on the FE Nikon only rate it capable of, IIRC, 10 second exposures. However, there is no hard limit (because it is not digital) and so it will actually run as long as it needs to. This exposure was probably close to twenty minutes.
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