The Herndon Monument was erected in 1860 in memory of Commander William Lewis Herndon, who went down with his ship, the steamer Central America, in a storm off coast of North Carolina in 1857. The ...
(Tribune News Service) — It was a tall and slippery climb up the Herndon Monument, but Ben Leisegang did it twice. Balancing precariously on the shoulders of two Naval Academy plebes stacked in a ...
The Herndon Climb, an annual tradition for plebes at the U.S. Naval Academy, is complete, marking a major milestone for the Class of 2028. The tradition dates back to the 1940s and is meant to test ...