The portraits of some of the young Italian men who died on the Snowy Mountains Scheme. These are the faces of the many workers who died building Australia’s greatest engineering project. The memorial in Cooma to 121 workers who died on the Snowy Mountains Scheme in the 1950s and 1960s. Construction of the Eucumbene tunnel in 1958, part of the Snowy Mountains Hydro-Electric Project. The portraits of 27 of the 29 young Italian men who died on the Snowy Mountains Scheme.