Is there a word or phrase for Walking slowly while tracing the surrounding with hands?

So the scene goes like this, she comes of the dark and is unable to see things at once. So she slowly walks while tracing the surrounding with her hands.

Is there a exclusive word for such an act?

Solution 1:

feel one's way idiom

1: to move forward carefully by using one's hands to feel anything in the way
He felt his way through the darkened room.

[2: to move toward a goal very slowly and carefully
In the early days of the project they were just feeling their way (along), trying not to make mistakes.] m-w

She made her way down the stairs, feeling her way quietly in the dark. ref.

She reached in front of her, feeling her way along the first wall, turning left around a corner. Two more false starts, and she found herself turning left ... ref.

Solution 2:

She was literally groping in the dark.

TFD(idioms):

grope in the dark

1. Literally, to feel about without the use of one's eyes, as due to blindness or an absence of light.
   I was groping in the dark down in this basement for ten minutes before I could find a light switch.

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